Robert Copeland was a newly minted 30-year-old lawyer when he was called up for active duty at the outset of World War II. In ...
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Lessons written in blood: The night of the long lances at Guadalcanal
The aftermath of Guadalcanal’s night battle left nearly 400 American sailors dead or wounded and a cruiser squadron nearly ...
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The Blucer’s Inferno: Norway’s Fortress Defies Nazi Naval Power
As Germany’s formidable cruiser Blucer sailed to seize Oslo in April 1940, Norway’s Oscarsborg Fortress unleashed a hidden ...
Along with the many early submarines used prior to the 1900s, torpedoes have evolved since their inception in 1866. Today's torpedoes are vastly different than earlier examples, as they boast ...
Eighty‑three years after a torpedo tore it away, the 150‑foot steel bow of USS New Orleans reappeared, this time as pixels on sonar and video, sitting about 2,215 feet down in the Solomon Islands’ ...
On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...
USS New Orleans with torpedo damage, December 1, 1942, after the Battle of Tassafaronga. Credit: U.S. Navy The last remaining piece of the USS New Orleans, a US Navy warship damaged during World War ...
On Nov. 30, 1942, a torpedo slammed into the heavy cruiser New Orleans, sending the bow, two gun turrets and more than 180 sailors to the bottom of Ironbottom Sound, near Guadalcanal in the Solomon ...
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