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  • were based on the 1780-vintage Perseverance class, which displaced around 900 ... engagement it was poor etiquette for a battleship to fire on an enemy frigate ...
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  • Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...
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  • sent its remaining ships, including the Battleship Yamato on a suicide mission ... battleships (Mississippi, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, California, ...
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  • fleet, a role previously played by the battleship. This change, which took ... larger aircraft: The large, modern Nimitz class of United States Navy carriers ...
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  • alert status, and on at least one battleship, all watertight doors open ... pumps. Burning oil from Arizona and West Virginia drifted down on her, and ...
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  • the sinking of Germany's mightiest battleship, the Bismarck. He also ... writer-in-residence at Hollins College in Virginia. He then became a full-time ...
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  • the British Empire, visiting Norfolk, Virginia, the colonies in the Caribbean ... life mirrored that of a comfortable middle-class family rather than grand ...
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  • for a few hours to the Russian Typhoon class, which can remain submerged ... out of Waikiki beach. The largest Atlantis-class submarine of its fleet, launched ...
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  • Mary Pinkney Hardy MacArthur of Norfolk, Virginia. His father was a recipient ... cadet, he graduated as valedictorian of a class of 93 in 1903, with only ...
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  • guns use cased ammunition, but many battleship and cruiser main guns use ... Morgan was recruiting sharpshooters in Virginia for the impending American ...
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  • Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, landed in Saudia Arabia ... to the gulf included a number of Broadsword class frigates, and Sheffield class ...
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