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- was assigned to the 1st Torpedo Flotilla, Coast Squadron, North Atlantic Fleet, and during the summer of 1903 participated in maneuvers off the New England Coast. In December 1903 she departed the east Coast and sailed via the Suez Canal to
- was assigned to the 1st Torpedo Flotilla, Coast Squadron, North Atlantic Fleet, and during the summer of 1903 participated in maneuvers off the New England Coast. In December 1903 she departed the east Coast and sailed via the Suez Canal to
- participated in maneuvers off the New England Coast. In December 1903 she departed the east Coast and sailed via the Suez Canal to the Asiatic Station, arriving in April 1904.On the Asiatic Station she served with the 1st Torpedo Flotilla,
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- 1888 for repairs. Operations along the Atlantic Coast and a cruise along the Coast of Africa ended when the ship returned to New York in May 1890. In August she headed back to familiar haunts in the Pacific arriving San Francisco 10 August 1891.
- Orleans.During the next two years, she helped guard the lower Mississippi, returning to New York Navy Yard where she decommissioned 29 April 1864 for the installation of new and improved machinery.Recommissioned 16 August 1866, Pensacola sailed
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- 1888 for repairs. Operations along the Atlantic Coast and a cruise along the Coast of Africa ended when the ship returned to New York in May 1890. In August she headed back to familiar haunts in the Pacific arriving San Francisco 10 August 1891.
- Orleans.During the next two years, she helped guard the lower Mississippi, returning to New York Navy Yard where she decommissioned 29 April 1864 for the installation of new and improved machinery.Recommissioned 16 August 1866, Pensacola sailed
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- in the
harbor of Quelpart Island, off the coast of Korea, on 14 April 1945. With
the crew at surface battle stations, Comdr. (then Lt. Comdr.) Street approached
the hostile anchorage from the south within 1,200 yards of the coast
- where scouts
saw an enemy sentry standing guard before a farmhouse in a valley below.
One squad, engaged in reconnoitering the area, was immediately pinned down
by intense machinegun and automatic-weapons fire from within the
- enemy fire, killed 8 Japanese in spider holes guarding the approach
to the pillbox. Crawling to within a few feet of the pillbox while his
men concentrated their bullets on the fire port, he began dropping grenades
through the narrow firing
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- was assigned to the 1st Torpedo Flotilla, Coast Squadron, North Atlantic Fleet, and during the summer of 1903 participated in maneuvers off the New England Coast. In December 1903 she departed the east Coast and sailed via the Suez Canal to
- was assigned to the 1st Torpedo Flotilla, Coast Squadron, North Atlantic Fleet, and during the summer of 1903 participated in maneuvers off the New England Coast. In December 1903 she departed the east Coast and sailed via the Suez Canal to
- participated in maneuvers off the New England Coast. In December 1903 she departed the east Coast and sailed via the Suez Canal to the Asiatic Station, arriving in April 1904.On the Asiatic Station she served with the 1st Torpedo Flotilla,
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- Jima and Okinawa, strategically placed islands guarding the approaches to Japan itself. From bases in the Marianas, U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 heavy bombers pounded fragile cities with massive incendiary raids. Strikes from U.S. Navy carriers,
- improved designs for submarines capable of coastal operations and fleet support in the vast Pacific.The navy faced yet another challenge with the beginning of the Great Depression, when construction of warships all but stopped. The global
- the Pacific the fleet moved from the California coast to the Hawaiian islands in an attempt to discourage further Japanese expansion. In the North Atlantic, Roosevelt waged an undeclared naval war against German U-boats.Despite these efforts, on 7
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- War economic growth:
In the matter of coast defense, this nation has been for
thirty years at a standstill, while others have been steadily advancing,
so that now we find ourselves in the rearÂ… That the defense of our coast
is the most
- Federal troop transports appeared off the coast of Maryland in the
spring of 1861, pro-secession Annapolis residents surrounded the locked
campus of the Academy, threatening the Northern students within. As commanding
officer of the cadet
- the distinction
of sinking the Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg on 19 June 1864.
In the summer of 1864, a combat command temporarily interrupted SampsonÂ’s
teaching career. That August, he joined the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
now
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- auxiliaries, 2 field pieces, 28 civil guards, 30 guards of public order,
and some volunteers of the 7th Battalion, located in towns southeast of
Mayagüez through which Schwan would march (Rivero 1972:305).Â
Meanwhile, Troop B and
- auxiliaries, 2 field pieces, 28 civil guards, 30 guards of public order,
and some volunteers of the 7th Battalion, located in towns southeast of
Mayagüez through which Schwan would march (Rivero 1972:305).Â
Meanwhile, Troop B and
- auxiliaries, 2 field pieces, 28 civil guards, 30 guards of public order,
and some volunteers of the 7th Battalion, located in towns southeast of
Mayagüez through which Schwan would march (Rivero 1972:305).Â
Meanwhile, Troop B and Puerto Rican
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- the crew leaped overboard about 3 miles off the coast.
In the water I saw one of my comrades was killed by a bullet to the head. At this time our destroyer, after a series of explosions, sank. When we got to the coast, we went on foot east
- the crew leaped overboard about 3 miles off the coast.
In the water I saw one of my comrades was killed by a bullet to the head. At this time our destroyer, after a series of explosions, sank. When we got to the coast, we went on foot east
- a series of explosions, sank. When we got to the coast, we went on foot east toward Santiago. Shortly afterwards, we met the men of Lt Caballero and together proceeded to Santiago.
Note: by Lt. Bustamente, executive offficer, Spanish Torpedoboat
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- German torpedo
that had washed up on the Italian coast, Rossetti had built a
sleek submersible craft that could be ridden through the water
like a horse. Filled with compressed air that drove two small,
silent propellers, Rossetti’s rebuilt torpedo
- German torpedo
that had washed up on the Italian coast, Rossetti had built a
sleek submersible craft that could be ridden through the water
like a horse. Filled with compressed air that drove two small,
silent propellers, Rossetti’s rebuilt torpedo
- the torpedo up to the first of the
barriers that guarded the outer harbor. Enemy searchlights swept
over the water, threatening to expose them to view. Each time,
however, the searchlights passed over them without revealing
their presence.
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