Home - Technology - A tugboat and a crane barge helped move the 45,000-ton Battleship Wisconsin about five feet off its Norfolk pier, its first move since 2000, so crews could replace the fender cushioning its hull On September 8, 2026, crews in downtown Norfolk,…
Let’s talk battleships because that’s what I know best. USS Iowa Battleship tour 19FortyFive conducted back in July of 2025. And those are only the ones I know well. Others abound. Nor, more to the point, are there battleship sailors waiting around…
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower returning to Norfolk after aviation mishap, Navy says
On May 6, 1956, off the Virginia Capes, the destroyer USS Eaton, radar dead for four days, turned hard at 27 knots toward a man-overboard call that turned out to be a floating white hat, straight into the path of the 57,500-ton battleship…
Ordered under the Two-Ocean Navy Act of July 1940, the five Montana-class battleships, Montana, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire and Louisiana, would have been 921 feet and 72,104 tons, with twelve 16-inch Mark 7 guns in four triple turrets, 21,000 tons of armor up to 18 inches…
U.S. Air Force Maj. Nicholas Nava, incoming commander for the 302d Communications Flight, speaks to an audience during the unit’s change of command ceremony Sept. 13, 2026, at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo. Nava takes command of the 302nd CF after serving as the 53rd Network…
During the Korean War, Wisconsin shelled North Korean and Chinese targets in support of United Nations and South Korean ground operations, after which she was decommissioned. It was there in 1952 that the North Koreans learned the folly of trying to…
The State of Illinois is known as the “Land of Lincoln,” a commander-in-chief under whom the United States Navy made major technological strides, so it’s entirely appropriate that the Navy bestowed the USS Illinois moniker on multiple warships throughout the…
U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Brian Kursawe, left, from Connecticut, the outgoing commanding officer of Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 252, Marine Aircraft Group 14, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, congratulates Lt. Col. Corey Jones, from North Carolina, the incoming commanding officer of VMGR…
Follow Stars and Stripes Europe Sailors observe flight operations on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sept. 28, 2026. (Nicholas Roberts/U.S. Navy) By KAYLYN BARNHART BATISTA STARS AND STRIPES Published 7 minutes ago · NORFOLK, Va. — USS Dwight D. Eisenhower…
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