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1898: “You May Fire When Ready, Gridley”: Battle of Manila Bay Established America as Major Naval Power

1942: Coral Sea Ends Japanese Advance in South Pacific

1904: Russian Fleet’s Slow Dash to Disaster at Tsushima Straits

1941: British Avenge Hood, Sink Bismark

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1942: Midway – America’s Trafalgar; Pivotal, Not Decisive

1945: Okinawa Secured After 72 Bloody Days

1898: Leathernecks Take Gitmo; Navy Gets Base

1794: Howe Defeats Villaret – Joyeuse, or Does He?

Lord Howe’s Signals Book Revolutionized Command Communications in Battle

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1943: “The Slot” Remains Hirohito’s Private Lake as Tokyo Express Clobbers U.S. with Torpedoes

1704: As Naval Prizes Go, Gibralter was England’s Brass Ring, and the Royal Marines Took it for Her

Late Breaking News from Nelson’s Victory at the Nile in 1798

1944: Guam and Tinian Follow Saipan as Navy, Maines, Army Provide Bases for Air Force to Send Bombers Against Jap Homeland

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1864: Farragut Carries Day at Mobile

1798: Nelson’s Victory over French at Nile Strands Bonapart in Egypt

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1813: “We Have Met the Enemy, and They are Ours…”; Perry’s Lake Erie Victory Permits Harrison’s Army to Recapture Detroit

1776: An Army Sergeant was the First Commander of an American Submarine to Attack the Enemy

1944: Allies Sink Six Prisoner – Laden Jap Ships; Death Toll Greater than Saipan, Tarawa, and Iwo

1939: German U-Boat Sinks British Passenger Liner Carrying Civilians Away from Newly – Declared War

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1944: With the World’s Eyes on Europe, U.S. Fights History’s Largest Sea Battle, Leyte Gulf
Surigao Strait Action: Oldendorf’s Battleline Annihilates Nishimura
Churchill’s Dispatches to MacArthur, Roosevelt
Did MacArthur Sleep Through Surigao Battle?
In U.S. Navy’s Heroic Battle off Samar, 3 Destroyers, 4 Des, 6 Baby Flattops Turn Back 4 Japanese Battleships, 8 Cruisers
Halsey Abandons Kinkaid to Chase Jap Decoy Force
1805: Nelson’s Victory at Trafalgar Still “Most Important Ever” to Many
A Nelson Captain Writes in Remorse of His Death
Subs Darter; Dace Ambush Kurita in Palawan Passage, Sink Two Japanese Cruisers
It Takes 19 Torpedoe Hits to Sink Unsinkable Musashi in Battle of Sibuyan Sea
Fury of Five – Inch Guns has Kurita Thinking He’s Facing Cruisers
1941: Four – Piper Reuben James First U.S. Ship Lost in WWII
One 250 Kilogram Bomb Well Placed Causes Loss of Princeton, Carnage on Birmingham
1891: Bar Brawl in Chile Strains International Aminity; Two U.S. Sailors are Slain in Fight at True Blue Saloon
The Nelson Society

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1943: Tarawa – Marines Get the Job Done, But Central Pacific Campaign Won’t Be Easy

Gilbert Island Invasions are Nimitz’s First Step on Long Road to Tokyo

5,200 Japanese Defenders on Benito Island Fought for Three Days, Until Only 17 of Them Were Alive

1812: Invasion of Canada Halted When Soldiers Won’t Leave U.S.

“Makin Taken”, Crows Dispatch from Army General, But Nimitz Fumes as Delays Endanger U.S. Fleet

1932: Allies Take Offensive Against Axis with U.S. Led Invasion of Northwest Africa

1759: Wild Weather, Treacherous Waters Don’t Deter Hawke in Battle with Conflains

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1941: Those Who Could Fight Back: Mess Attendant Among Many Heroes of Japanese Sneak Attack

1812: Old Ironsides Defeats HMS Java in Battle off Brazil

1914: Royal Navy, Defeated at Coronel, Exacts Revenge in Full at Falklands – The Famous Destruction of von Spee’s Asiatic Fleet in South Atlantic Waters

1937: On a Sunny Sunday in December, Japanese Attack Panay without Warning