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The Pearl Harbor survivor that was finally killed by an atomic bomb

The battleship USS Pennsylvania survived the devastation of Pearl Harbor and returned to the Pacific to unleash overwhelming ...

History behind battleship sunk during Pearl Harbor attack | California Politics 360

In 1944, two years after the attack, the USS California returned to her combat fleet. The Department of War said the ...

USS Arizona: The battleship lost at Pearl Harbor 84 years ago that still defines a nation’s memory

The USS Arizona was the flagship of Battleship Division One. She sank after her forward magazines exploded after being hit by ...
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USS Abraham Lincoln Quietly Deploys from San Diego

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) prepares to conduct a replenishment-at-sea with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) on Nov. 8, 2024. US Navy Photo Less ...
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The Haunting Wreck of USS Wasp Found 14000 Feet Down

USS Wasp was born from treaty limits and built smaller than her sisters, yet she carried a reputation far larger than her size. After helping save Malta by launching Spitfires, she was rushed into the ...
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The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier is in the Caribbean. Here’s its backstory

U.S. Southern Command announced Sunday that the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group had made its way into the Caribbean Sea, with 4,000 sailors and “dozens” of military aircraft aboard the lead ...
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USS Gerald R. Ford Arrives With U.S. Southern Command

The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group entered the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) area of responsibility (AOR) on Nov. 11, 2025, after a high profile redeployment from European waters. Alongside ...
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An airship fell on rural Ohio. A century later, residents still tell its story

Theresa Rayner has lived in Noble County her whole life. She said not much happens in the rural unincorporated community of Ava. But, one morning, a century ago, it felt like the center of the ...
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Behind the Meaning of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” 50 Years After the Sinking

Most songs about historical events are written many years after the events themselves. It takes a while to know what events will be consequential and which ones will fade from memory. The Edmund ...
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US Navy’s ‘most lethal combat platform,’ the carrier USS Gerald R Ford, is being sent to the Caribbean

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, billed by the US Navy as “the most capable, adaptable, and lethal combat platform in the world,” is being sent to the Caribbean as the Trump administration ...
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Catherine Newman on Blending the Everyday with the Unimaginable in Her New Novel, Wreck

Fiftysomething mother and writer Rocky, the protagonist of Catherine Newman’s 2024 novel Sandwich and its new sequel, Wreck (out on Tuesday from HarperCollins), would likely laugh at my use of an ...
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Navy fires USS Wyoming submarine’s commanding officer

The Navy relieved the commanding officer of the USS Wyoming’s blue crew on Wednesday, according to a U.S. Navy official. Submarine Group 10 commander Rear Adm. Bob Wirth relieved Cmdr. Robert Moreno ...