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Let's Talk About the U.S. Marines Reopening WW2 Airfields To Prepare For Future Scenarios
After the first one in the Pacific few months ago, the USMC renovated and reopened another WW2 airfield in North Carolina ...
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MoH Recipient Richard M. McCool, Jr. Ignored His Own Injuries to Rally His Men After a Kamikaze Attack
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, McCool applied for and was accepted into the newly-created ...
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Marines reopen second WWII-era airfield to prep for future combat
The opening of the North Carolina airfield follows the service’s June recertification of an airfield on the Pacific island of ...
USS White River: How the US Navy transformed a landing vessel into a legendary rocket artillery ship
Today's US Navy is poorly equipped to support a landing force, but that wasn't the case decades ago when it had ships like ...
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First Stern Landing Vessel heads to III MEF as Marine Corps moves toward LSM and interim 'bridging solution'
The Marine Corps' first Stern Landing Vessel, a converted civilian support ship leased from shipbuilder Hornbeck Offshore Services, is now on its way to Okinawa, Japan to exercise with the third ...
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Chris Hemler on Delivering Destruction and Triphibious Fire Support in the Pacific War
Chris Hemler spoke with CIMSEC to discuss his book, Delivering Destruction: American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima. In this book, Hemler examines the development of American ...
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Get to know the heroic WWII namesake of the Navy’s newest ship
Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr.
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Marine Corps narco-boat slated for more experimentation
Drug runner ingenuity is at the heart of an autonomous craft the U.S. Marine Corps wants to use to ferry weapons, food and ...