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Warship Sunk by the Nazis During World War II Located Off the Coast of Brazil
On July 19, 1944, a Nazi submarine torpedoed and sank the Vital de Oliveira, a Brazilian ship that transported troops ...
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See inside a WWII-era U-boat, the only submarine that the US Navy captured intact and towed home
Submarine warfare played a pivotal role in the Battle of the Atlantic as German U-boats targeted merchant ... WWII, making recovery efforts for the sinking U-boat a top priority for the Navy ...
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Don’t Protect the U.S. Merchant Marine — Promote It
It is no secret that the American commercial shipbuilding industry is struggling. The U.S. Merchant Marine fleet is small, ...
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How one ship keeps operations going at a secretive US Navy base in the middle of the Indian Ocean
When the contractors get the container above the Merchant Vessel (M/V) SLNC Corsica, the merchant mariners assigned to the ship help guide ... Corsica's job is similar to US Navy Support Facility ...
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USS Bismarck Sea: The Last U.S. Aircraft Carrier Lost in WWII
a type of small aircraft carrier built for the Navy during World War II. These carriers were designed to protect convoys of merchant ships from enemy submarines and aircraft. USS Bismarck Sea had ...
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Falklands war: Plymouth and Liverpool remember UK merchant navy sailors killed
Atlantic Conveyor was a merchant navy roll-on, roll-off, container ship commissioned by the military, through the STUFT system (Ships Taken Up From Trade) to transport equipment to the Falkland ...
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See inside a WWII-era U-boat, the only submarine that the US Navy captured intact and towed home
Over eight decades ago, the US Navy made the historic capture of a Nazi U-boat during World War II. A treasure trove of vital German ... in the Battle of the Atlantic as German U-boats targeted ...