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Skip to main content Currently Reading Hundreds died on World War II hell ships. Now theres an effort to identify the dead. Michael E. Ruane, The Washington Post Jan. 29, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6The Montevideo Maru is shown in the Panama Canal on Dec. 25, 1937. It was later used by the Japanese military to transport prisoners. It became the first of the "hell ships" to be sunk by the U.S. Navy, on July 1, 1942, during a torpedo attack from the submarine Sturgeon (SS-187).Na...

Nukes arent just for bombers and subs. Here are some unusual ways militaries have also planned to drop the bomb insider@insider.com (Benjamin Brimelow) © Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb detonated on August 6, 1945. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images Throughout the Cold War, the prospect of bombers dropping nuclear bombs and submarines launching nuclear-tipped missiles terrified people arou...

Photos: How the 1918 and COVID pandemics compare © Apic/Getty Images Red Cross volunteers fighting against the Spanish flu epidemic in the United States in 1918. Editors note: Some of the images below are animations showing two images and may take longer to load. There are strong parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1918 flu pandemic, considered to be the deadliest of the 20th century. The 1918 flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million worldwide, including nearly 675,000 Amer...

US Navy formally notifies families about long-lost Seattle plane January 18, 2021 at 10:57 am Nora Mayes in North Bend in 1961, not far from Black Lake in the Cascade foothills where her sons plane may have crashed. (Courtesy Lee Corbin) The families of two lost Naval aviators have received formal notification from the U.S. Navy about the likely whereabouts of the men and their SNJ-5 trainer aircraft. Lieutenant Benjamin Vreeland and Ensign Gaston Mayes disappeared in Marc...

USNI News Search for: Home » Foreign Forces » Panel: First Gulf War Proved the Value of the Reserve Force, Destructive Power of Simple Weapons Panel: First Gulf War Proved the Value of the Reserve Force, Destructive Power of Simple Weapons January 14, 2021 9:48 AM USS Wisconsin (BB-64) Firing a broadside to port with her 16/50 and 5/38 1991. Navy History and Heritage Command Photo Key to the success of the first Gulf War was extensive use of reservists — like Seabees and intelligence — in...

  Navy corpsmen administer plasma to a Marine wounded in the battle for Bunker Hill in Korea in 1952. Medal of Honor Monday: Navy Hospital Corpsman John E. Kilmer While serving as a hospital corpsman in Korea, Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John E. Kilmer gave his life to save his comrades. He was only 21, but his effort and courage were unquestioned, and they led him to posthumously earn the Medal of Honor.  Kilmer was born Aug. 15, 1930, in Highland Park, Illinois, but his family moved him an...

Former Wichita Police Chief Rick Stone on Wednesday received the Department of the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award.

Navy to Sailors: Show Us Your Finest New Years Deck Log Poetry Aviation Maintenance Administrationman 2nd Class Brya Russell, assigned to aircraft intermediate maintenance department aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), writes in the deck log while standing Petty Officer of the Watch in the deck house on May 5, 2020. (Cory J. Daut/U.S. Navy) 1 Jan 2021 Navy ship deck logs tend to be bland and eye-glazing entries on the days activities, even in times of war, ...

By MC3 Anthony Collier, USS Ralph Johnson Posted December 31, 2020 In this file photo, USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) operates in the Philippine Sea, Dec. 21. (U.S. Navy/MC2 Markus Castaneda) PACIFIC OCEAN - The bridge was dark and quiet when Lt. j.g. Grace Miller, from Atlanta, Georgia, the officer of the deck, signed the first deck log entry of the New Year aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) on Jan. 1, 2021, but what was typi...

What a drag. Top Gun was about the best of the best flitting around the skies, kept aloft by a lonely impulse of delight. This list of Historys Worst 5 Submarines catalogues the worst of the worst lumbering around in the briny deep. Such a vessel is a millstone dragging down the fortunes of its navy, its parent military, or the society that puts it to sea. Call it Bottom Gun. Now, its possible to rank hardware, including submersibles and their armament, purely by technical characteristics. Th...