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The Imperial Japanese Navy submarine force is the worst of the worst. 

The ship had brought supplies to the army of U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant outside Chattanooga in 1863.

Thomas J. Cutler is a retired lieutenant commander and former gunners mate second class who served in patrol craft, cruisers, destroyers, and aircraft carriers. His varied assignments included an in-country Vietnam tour, small craft command, and nine years at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he served as Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Seamanship & Navigation Department and Associate Chairman of the History Department. While at the Academy, he was awarded the William P. Clements Award f...

Share This: “I joined to fight and was put blowing a bugle. There is a right way, and Marine Corps Way, naturally it’s easy to see which way we go,” said USMC Sgt. Darrell Cole. In his formative years, Darrell Cole was a Sunday school leader, choir boy, and vagabond. But his actions in the moments that would ultimately end his life made him an American hero and Medal of Honor recipient. This is the last known photo of Sgt. Cole before his heroic actions at Iwo Jima. (Dailyjournalonline) C...

Share This: In March 1924, the battleship Arizona (BB-39), the flagship of Admiral William Pratt’s BatDiv 4 commanded by Captain Percy Olmstead, anchored in New York City for a nine-day visit to the Big Apple. During the interwar years, this was a quite common occurrence. What followed next, however, was far from routine as enlisted members of the crew snuck a hooker on the ship. The prostitute remained a stowaway for several weeks. She wasn’t caught until the Arizona’s passage through th...

: : In this June 1, 2020 photo, Black Lives Matter protesters surround the now removed Monument Avenue statue to Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News) Richmond City Council is moving forward with selling or transferring the Confederate monuments taken down last year. In response to nightly racial justice protests in the city and beyond, Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the removal of all of Richmond’s public Confederate monuments and iconography...

Rep. Johnson discusses tank ordeal at Portsmouth Airport By Patrick Keck - pkeck@aimmediamidwest.com MINFORD — A tank has stood outside the Greater Portsmouth Regional Airport for the past 25 years and one U.S. Congressman is trying to keep it that way. Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Marietta, paid a visit to the airport Monday where he sat down with members of the Sciotoville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3638. Having heard their concerns, he vowed to make a quick resolution to the matter. “We are i...

Deep-water explorers find USS Johnston, a WWII ship sunk in 1944 battle By Azi Paybarah New York Times April 10, 2021 — 7:06pm Text size Copy shortlink: Victor Vescovo had been sitting for several hours inside a sm...

The U.S.S. Johnston Sank in 1944. Divers Just Visited Its Wreckage. The shipwreck, 21,000 feet underwater, was discovered in 2019. A team of explorers has now confirmed that it was the Navy destroyer that played a key role in helping General MacArthur retake the Philippines. A shipwreck near the Philippines was confirmed last month as the U.S.S. Johnston, which Japanese forces sank in 1944.Credit...Caladan Oceanic April 9, 2021, 6:00 a.m. ET Victor L. Vescovo had been sitting for several hours ...

MUSKOGEE – On April 1, the U.S. Navy, working with the company Caladan Oceanic, located the wreck of the USS Johnston in 21,000 feet of water off the Philippine island of Samar.  The ship was lost during the Battle of Samar and was commanded by Cherokee Nation and Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen Earnest Edwin Evans. As commander of the USS Johnston, his aggressive nature and bravery helped win the battle against the Japanese navy in October 1944.  Evans was born in Pawnee in 1908 and...