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Letter to the Editor: Anniversary of Albany submarine tests
6+ hour, 25+ min ago (501+ words) June 20 marks a significant anniversary of events in Albany, WA; events that turned the tide of the Pacific War. History records that from March 1942 allied submarines had retreated to Fremantle and Albany via Surabaya and Tjilatjap in Java, Darwin, and…...
A Japanese submarine sank USS Juneau in World War II. One just did it again as the US and its allies train for a Pacific fight.
5+ hour, 31+ min ago (507+ words) Over 80 years ago, a Japanese submarine attacked and sank the US Navy ship USS Juneau. Now, a Japanese torpedo sent another American vessel bearing that same name to the ocean floor, but under very different circumstances. During a recent exercise,…...
A peacetime armada echoes a wartime one
9+ hour, 2+ min ago (298+ words) In the predawn darkness, an enormous armada of ships will gather south of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Then, as the sun begins to rise, the vessels " some sporting 10, 000 square feet of sails and cadets, and others housing missiles and more than…...
Japanese Submarines Have Now Sunk The US Navy's "USS Juneau' Twice
22+ hour, 3+ min ago (984+ words) The third USS Juneau (LPD-10), a decommissioned Austin-class amphibious transport dock, was sunk just last week by an unidentified Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine during this year's Exercise Valiant Shield 2026 in the Philippine Sea. The second of the three warships…...
How Parks Stephenson's passion for naval history led him to Baton Rouge
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (372+ words) From exploring the Titanic's ruins at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean to planning the USS Kidd's restoration in Baton Rouge, Parks Stephenson's fascination with ships has no geographic limits." After serving 20 years in the Navy, Stephenson transitioned to…...
Three Exocets That Terrified the Royal Navy
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (141+ words) by Connor Kerr | Jul 1, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments Argentina fired five Exocets. Three hit ships. Two ships sank. Thirteen men died on Glamorgan, twenty on Sheffield, twelve on Atlantic Conveyor. The total cost of five French-made missiles " each worth…...
New USS Greeneville Exhibit At Greeneville-Greene County History Museum " WGRV. com
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (178+ words) The public is invited to join the Greeneville/Greene County History Museum staff, board members, and USS Greeneville Inc. , on July 3rd as the museum unveils a new exhibit at the Greeneville Greene County History Museum dedicated to the USS Greeneville....
Lost for 50 years, Japan's WWII gold submarine was finally found nearly 3 miles underwater
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (643+ words) The Times of India...
History's Headlines: On a Submarine from Corregidor
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (202+ words) WFMZ. com History's Headlines: On a Submarine from Corregidor Elizabeth E. Graves Sayre (1895-1985) probably had no idea what kind of life she would have when she married Francis B. Sayre, son of Robert H. Sayre, a founder of Bethlehem Iron, later Steel, in…...
The Sturgeon-Class Submarine Fought The Cold War's Most Secret Undersea Battles. Then The U. S. Navy Scrapped Almost All Of Them
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (467+ words) For three decades, the Sturgeon-class submarines were the U. S. Navy's quiet Cold War hunters, trailing Soviet missile boats and tapping their undersea cables in operations still partly classified. The Navy built 37 of them, then retired the class early and scrapped or…...