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1 day ago · William Daniel Leahy ( / ˈleɪhiˌ ˈleɪ.i /) (6 May 1875 – 20 July 1959) was an American naval officer. The most senior United States military officer on active duty during World War II, he held several titles and exercised considerable influence over foreign and military policy.
1 day ago · Strauss had grown up in Virginia, in a culture that venerated Southern military heroes of the "War Between the States", but a tour he took in summer 1918 to the devastated battlefields of Château-Thierry and Belleau Wood disabused him of any romantic illusions about the glory of warfare.
1 day ago · Robert Anthony De Niro was born in the Manhattan borough of New York City on August 17, 1943, the only child of painters Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr. His father was of Irish and Italian descent, while his mother had Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry.
6 days ago · John Paul Jones, American naval hero in the American Revolution, renowned for his victory over British ships off the east coast of England on September 23, 1779. He was given a Congressional Gold Medal in 1787, and his grave in Annapolis, Maryland, was made a national shrine.
Jun 27, 2024 · Floyd Bennett (born Oct. 25, 1890, Warrensburg, N.Y., U.S.—died April 25, 1928, Quebec, Can.) was an American pioneer aviator who piloted the explorer Richard E. Byrd on the first successful flight over the North Pole on May 9, 1926.
Jun 24, 2024 · Siege of Yorktown, (September 28–October 19, 1781), joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution.
Jun 16, 2024 · Unmanned vehicles can also be delivered by ship and submarine. DARPA recently picked six companies to further their effort in developing ship-launched infrastructure-free unmanned aircraft, and the U.S. Navy already completed tests of an underwater UUV launched from a Virginia-class fast-attack submarine.
