Sailors from the USS Fort Worth laugh with Navy World War II veteran Elsie “Kitty” Rippin after they surprised her with cake and gift for her 101st birthday on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025 ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy. The USS ...

Harold 'Hal' Todd Jr. served on the USS Lagarto (SS 371) during World War II and frequently wrote letters to his wife, Rae. While on deployment, Rae gave birth to their son, but Hal was killed in ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (Tribune News Service) — The crew of the USS Fort Worth gathered Monday to celebrate the milestone birthday of Elsie “Kitty” Rippin, a World War II Navy veteran ...

THE USS CONSTELLATION IS A FIXTURE IN BALTIMORE’S INNER HARBOR. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE PASS BY IT EVERY DAY. MOST HAVE NO IDEA THE ROLE IT PLAYED IN ENDING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE. IN TERMS OF ...

As USS North Carolina, it was the lead ship of the North Carolina class of battleships and the first fast battleship built ...

It was commissioned in April 1941, served during World War II and decommissioned in 1947. It was saved from scrap by local and state leaders who raised funds to bring it to Wilmington as a museum.

Comprised of the first-in-class Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation ... who had served as a naval officer during World War II. After his motor torpedo boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer ...

The other brother, Michael Joseph Reeve, is partially named for a cousin, Joseph Hanlon, who was killed in World War I and has a West Baltimore park ... the younger of the two brothers, is the ...

Secretary of Navy Carlos Del Toro salutes in the rain as he arrives for the USS Richard M ... to volunteer for naval service during World War II and the first to be promoted to an O-6 rank.

We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering, that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we ...