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Steven Terjeson | July 8, 2009
Indiana Based WW II Ship Joins Historic List
By AP – Tuesday Jul. 07, 2009 – West Kentucky Star
The National Park Service granted the designation to the LST-325, which it says is one of the few surviving American vessels to go ashore on D-Day in 1944. The ship has been permanently moored at Evansville since 2005.
Ship [...]
Steven Terjeson | July 23, 2008
“Wherever there is a mess, the destroyer runs first. She is expendable and dangerous.” – John Steinbeck
Watch the full episode of “Hero Ships: USS Laffey”.
The USS Laffey (DD-724) is the only surviving Allen M. Sumner class destroyer preserved in her World War II configuration and the only destroyer of the period that saw action in [...]
Steven Terjeson | July 22, 2008
Watch the full episode of “Hero Ships: USS Arizona” the tale of the beginning of World War II for the United States and the attack on Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941. USS Arizona only lasted about 10 minutes into WW II but remains one of the wars most historic monuments. 1,177 men died on the [...]
Steven Terjeson | March 17, 2008
WORLD WAR II MYSTERY SOLVED
Australian Warship Found After 66-Year Search
The 1941 sinking of the HMAS Sydney was Australia’s worst naval disaster ever. For six decades, Australians have been wondering how the pride of its navy could have been sunk by a lightly-armed German cruiser. Now, that mystery might finally be solved.
One of Australia’s greatest military [...]
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