The American Liberty ship SS Richard Montgomery ran aground off Britain in 1944, and its destruction could cause huge damage ...
On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...
USS LST 325, the last fully operational World War II Landing Ship Tank in the United States, will make a stop in Muscatine September 11 – 15. The 328-foot-long ship left its home port in Evansville, ...
On March 19, 1945, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, after enduring a fierce Japanese assault, was a smoldering wreck. The ship’s captain, a fierce disciplinarian hated by many of his men, studied ...