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The Navy Tried for 4 Weeks to Sink Their Own Aircraft Carrier and Failed
The USS America, a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, was deliberately sunk in 2005 during a “SinkEx” live-fire exercise to study its survivability in combat. -Commissioned in 1965, the ...
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Why a US Navy captain ordered a military funeral for a kamikaze pilot during WWII
A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...