President Trump’s right: If our Navy doesn’t get more ships, we’ll never beat China in a war
The great 19th-century strategist and navalist Alfred Thayer Mahan would be shocked and mystified that we have allowed the ...
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How a ‘Dauntless’ dive bomber became a WWII ace at Coral Sea
View on the flight deck of carrier Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea. (U.S. Navy/National Archives) The next day, on May 8, 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea reached its crescendo.
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USS Ronald Reagan Holds Coral Sea Remembrance Ceremony
Sailors aboard the Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan held a wreath-laying ceremony in commemoration of the WWII Battle of the Coral Sea on July 26, a year after the wreckage ...
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How did a Bomber Fight Fast and Deadly Zeros
May 8, 1942, Battle of the Coral Sea. Lieutenant Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa from Scouting Squadron FIVE (VS-5) in an SBD Dauntless, is in patrol over the aircraft carrier U.S.S. YORKTOWN (CV-5).
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America’s Dauntless Dive Bomber Saved The Day At Midway
The first major test for the SBD Dauntless came during the Battle of the Coral Sea, when the aircraft was used to sink two Japanese vessels, the light aircraft carrier (CVL) Shoho and the fleet ...
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Midway Campaign - The Midway Operation
Shortly after the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo in April of 1942, the Japanese began planning for a decisive battle in the vicinity of Midway, to take place in June. The Coral Sea operation in May was ...