The Navy decommissioned the 37-year-old cruiser Leyte Gulf this month at Naval ... The ship is named after the 1944 World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippine Sea, the largest naval ...
Built during World War II, the Alaska ... battlecruiser. The U.S. Navy acknowledged that the Alaska was not quite a cruiser; heavy cruisers were typically designated “CA,” whereas the Alaska ...
The Navy cruiser Leyte Gulf wrapped up its final deployment ... The ship is named after the 1944 World War II Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippine Sea, the largest naval battle in history.
The Baltimore-class heavy cruisers, although less famous than Iowa-class battleships, played a key role in World War II by protecting U.S. Navy carrier groups and bombarding land targets.
The Navy celebrated the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam’s 37 years of service during a decommissioning ceremony Friday at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.
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