Raymond-Spruance News: Today In U.S. Naval History: November 20, This Day In Naval History - February 23, This Day In Navy History, USS Spruance Commissioned As Wednesday, March 13, 2024 SUBSCRIBE ...

The vessel was named for Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, one of the masterminds (along with Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who had also had an entire class of U.S. Navy (USN) destroyers named in his ...

From Cold War Skepticism to Gulf War Triumph: The Legacy of Spruance-Class Destroyers. Spruance-class ships were introduced as the U.S. Navy’s primary destroyer in the 1970s and 1980s.

he guided-missile destroyers USS Spruance and USS Decatur are scheduled to return Monday to San Diego from a seven-month deployment to the Western Pacific, according to the Navy.

1944 - Carrier groups under Adm. Raymond Spruance attack Saipan, Tinian and Rota in the Marianas. 1945 - U.S. Marines and a Navy corpsman raise the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima.

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance is scheduled to make its maiden deployment from San Diego Wednesday. The Arleigh Burke-class vessel will head to the Western Pacific to ...

During the last year of World War II the U.S. Navy indulged in a bit of pleasantry designed to deceive the Japanese: Admiral William F. Halsey commanded the Third Fleet, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance ...