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USS Doris Miller: Navy to name new $13bn aircraft carrier after Pearl Harbor hero who manned machine gun to fight off Japanese aircraft and was the first African American to receive the Navy Cross for valor

The US Navy is to name new aircraft carrier after a World War II hero  Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller was the first African American to receive the Navy Cross for valor in 1942 The $13billion aircraft carrier will be the fourth of the new Gerald R. Ford-class supercarriers, and is scheduled to launch inContinue reading “USS Doris Miller: Navy to name new $13bn aircraft carrier after Pearl Harbor hero who manned machine gun to fight off Japanese aircraft and was the first African American to receive the Navy Cross for valor”

Federal Navy river monitor USS Onondaga in the James River, 1864. They were heavily armed to support ground troops, bombard forts and to less extend Confederate ships – 2×15″ (381mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns and 2×8″ 150lbs (203mm) Parrot rifles.

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USNS Pililaau, T-AKR 304, anchored off Red Beach, Camp Pendelton, with the Roll-on/Roll-off Discharge Facility (RRDF) attached as the Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS) makes its approach during Joint Logistics Over-The-Shore (JLOTS) 2008

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