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2 days ago · As wounded soldiers kept arriving back aboard the USS Samuel Chase throughout the afternoon, Army leaders decided to land the remaining members of the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division ...
Jun 6, 2013 · The Samuel Chase, part of Task Group 124.3, arrived in the transport area 10 miles off Normandy’s shore and anchored on the morning of June 6, at 3:15. The ship began embarking troops at 5:30...
3 days ago · Missouri, American battleship, scene of the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945, that formally ended World War II. The USS Missouri, one of four Iowa-class battleships that were completed during the war, numbered among the largest warships afloat, being 887 feet (270 metres) long and displacing.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · Grant was sworn in by Salmon P. Chase on March 4, 1873. In his second inaugural address, he focused on what he considered the chief issues: freedom and fairness for all Americans and the benefits of citizenship for freed slaves.
- Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S.
- Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
1 day ago · USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned naval warship still afloat. She was launched in 1797, one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed.
- 15 October 1966
- 1797
- Joshua Humphreys
- Charlestown Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts
5 days ago · Pueblo Incident, capture of the USS ‘Pueblo,’ a Navy intelligence ship, and its 83 crewmen by North Korean patrol boats off the coast of North Korea on January 23, 1968. The United States, maintaining that the ‘Pueblo’ had been in international waters, began a military buildup in the area.
2 days ago · Service with the US Navy during World War II. After graduating from high school in 1935, Ernest Borgnine joined the US Navy. He spent much of his military service on the USS Lamberton (DD-119). He ...
