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 ...

The U.S. Navy is likely to continue its deployment in the Red Sea to protect the shipping route. As cruel and heartless as it may seem, kill marks (aka victory markings) are a time-honored method ...

Spruance-class ships were introduced as the U.S. Navy’s primary destroyer in the 1970s and 1980s. These ships, named in honor of World War II Navy Admiral Raymond Spruance, were designed 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 ...

Capt. Raymond James Hart, USN (Ret.) Virginia Beach – Capt. Raymond James Hart, USN (Ret.), 84, passed away November 6, 2017. Born in Providence, RI, he was the son of the late James and ...

On Aug. 10, 1944, Marine Corps Gen. Roy Geiger announced that all organized enemy resistance had ended. The Battle of Guam was officially over.

As a wartime fleet commander, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance crossed the Pacific, from Midway to Saipan to Okinawa, the hard way. In 1952 he crossed it with ease to become U.S. Ambassador at Manila ...

This is the Navy Supply Corps Birthday. 1919 - Launching of Osmond Ingram (DD-255), first Navy ship named for an enlisted man 1944 - Carrier groups under Spruance attack Saipan, Tinian and Rota in ...

KEY WEST, Fla. (Sept. 23, 2011) The guided-missile destroyer pre-commissioning unit (PCU) Spruance (DDG 111) arrives at Naval Air Station Key West for its formal commissioning ceremony to be held Oct.

Commissioned two years ago, the 509-foot ship is named after Adm. Raymond Spruance, a cruiser division commander who substituted for the ill Adm. William "Bull" Halsey to lead an aircraft carrier ...