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North Carolina USS West Virginia sailor accounted for from World War II
The remains of a North Carolina sailor from World War II have been accounted for, the U.S. Navy said Friday. U.S. Navy Mess ...
USS Scranton, Pacific Fleet's oldest fast-attack sub, gifted with storied game of Navy legend
A San Diego-based submarine has received a unique Navy honor, with a history dating to World War II. The crew of the Los ...
Revolutionary War spy who was also a slave will get statue in Virginia
NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory ...
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The Battle of Hampton Roads Killed Wooden Warships Once and For All
March 8-9, 2025, marked the 163rd anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads. This battle, though tactically inconclusive in terms of the immediate aftermath, proved to be one of the most epic battles ...
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Ugandan special forces deploy to South Sudan to protect government as civil war fears grow
Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...
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Syria's Civil War Takes Another Deadly, Dramatic Turn
Syria's 14-year civil war has undergone yet another rapid series of shifts, with violence sweeping the west coast homeland of deposed President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite Muslim sect and ...
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Uganda deploys troops in South Sudan as civil war fears grow
The pair signed a peace deal to bring a five-year civil war to an end in 2018. Kiir’s government detained two ministers and several senior military officials allied with Machar last week.
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The extraordinary civil war engulfing one of Britain’s greatest cathedrals
The extraordinary civil war engulfing one of Britain’s greatest cathedrals A rebellion has broken out among Winchester Cathedral’s congregation, but a new review is unlikely to allay fears of ...
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Group plans to move USS Batfish, build new war memorial and museum
The USS Batfish, a retired Navy submarine, has sat in Muskogee since 1973. Flooding in 2019 caused the WWII sub to float and come to a rest out of it’s original place. It has been closed to ...
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Syria’s worst violence in months reopens wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.
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War Memorial Park Authority releases renderings, plans to move USS Batfish
The War Memorial Park Authority in Muskogee is releasing how it plans to relocate the USS Batfish, and what a new museum could look like. The WWII submarine has been closed to the public since ...
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How a Civil War Drummer Boy Became the Youngest Medal of Honor Recipient
As bedraggled Union troops retreated to their camp along the James River in Virginia in early July 1862 ... boy -- a critical position during the Civil War that was responsible for much more ...