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America’s 16-Gun Jackhammer That Pummeled Japan Round-the-Clock
On October 14, 1944, during intense fighting near Formosa, USS San Diego’s gunners fought desperately to repel waves of Japanese aircraft swarming the American fleet. While the San Diego’s guns downed ...
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'The Unlikely War Hero': The Youngest and Lowest-Ranking Vietnam War POW in the Hanoi Hilton
It was April 6, 1967, when 20-year-old Seaman Apprentice Doug Hegdahl fell overboard, off the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Canberra and into Vietnam's Gulf of Tonkin. He spent hours in ...