On July 6, 1971, HMS Cavalier and HMS Rapid, two veterans of the Royal Navy, met off Scotland's Firth of Forth for a historic showdown. That morning, both ships set off in a 64-mile-long race. The air ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

He oversaw supplies for the war effort under Lyndon B. Johnson and later had a brief, rocky tenure as president of The ...

Paul R. Ignatius, a management consultant who served as secretary of the Navy at the height of the Vietnam War and spent two ...

(Navy History) The destroyer escort smashed into the U-boat ... To this day, Buckley holds the distinction of being the only U.S. Navy ship in World War II, and since, to ram an enemy vessel and ...

After service in World War II, the longtime Little Compton resident worked as an investment banker, GOP fundraiser, Navy ...

A G.O.P. fund-raiser, he was the Navy chief under Gerald R. Ford and held ambassadorships in the 1970s and ’80s. He gained ...

J. William "Bill" Middendorf, a longtime Rhode Island resident and U.S. Navy veteran with an extensive political career, has ...

In the wake of World War 2, the United States emerged as an industrial powerhouse after supplying its own military and its ...

Recently, I watched a gripping movie called “Greyhound” that was about World War II and the North Atlantic convoys that were heavily preyed upon by German U-boats until Navy destroyers started ...

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