Sea Classics Magazine
Volume 39 Number 12 December 2006
Contents:
Farewell, Daisy Mae! THE LAST ALL-GUN CRUISER GOES TO THE SMELTER
The famed heavy cruiser Des Moines (CA-134) is towed to Texas for scrapping after years of searching for a port to berth her as a memorial war ship fail Just after 1700 on 21 August 2006, the 58-year-old heavy cruiser USS Des Moines (CA-134) "was warped away from its pier at the former ...
DIE SEEKRIEG: A U-Boat captain describes the stark terror of facing death in a doomed submarine
With its engines dead and its tortured hull about to implode under the pressure of a deep dive, to escape the pummeling of Allied depth charges Oberleutnant Zur See Koitschka knew it would take a near miracle for U-616 to survive The Commanding Officer of the destroyer that attacked my ...
HITLER'S GRAND ADMIRAL: Erich Raeder
Part Seven Faced with ever increasing Nazi party cronyism and a series of humiliating defeats and setbacks at sea which saw Germany's vaunted pocket battleships fail to live up to their potential, the Grand Admiral knew it was time to resign the post to which he had dedicated his ...
"When would the slaughter end?" was the question on every mariner's mind in the dark days of 1942 as merchant ship losses rose at alarming rates on the stormy Atlantic "We had damned good reason to be fearful, to be concerned about what was going on out there on the lonely Atlantic," ...
The Blue Angels: 60th ANNIVERSARY OF THE NAVY'S TOP RECRUITERS
Organized in 1946 at the request of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz to spur interest in Naval Aviation, the Blue Angels' award-winning flight demonstration team has gone on to become the US Navy's best recruiting aid "They sum up the entire Naval experience in one astonishing ...
Fate decreed that the brand-new tank landing ship's wartime career was to be painfully brief, but memorably heroic The keel plates for USS LST-921 were laid down at the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, Massachusetts, on 1 May 1944. Five days earlier, 26 April, construction ...
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