Summary and Key Points: Introduced in the 1970s, the Spruance-class destroyers were designed primarily for anti-submarine warfare and named after WWII Navy Admiral Raymond Spruance. Some experts ...

The Japs fought desperately this week in their own front yard. In one of the greatest air battles of the Pacific war, hundreds of Jap planes took to the air, flew against a U.S. task force which was ...

“Regardless of the enemy design,” said the voice from Tokyo, “the war situation has increased with unprecedented seriousness—nay, furiousness.” Some examples: > Off the China coast Claire Chennault’s ...

Foreword -- Introduction -- Preface -- List of illustrations -- List of charts -- Abbreviations, ship symbols, aircraft designations, and operation code names -- Ch. 1. The road to flag rank -- Ch. 2.

During the span of a decade from the early 70s to the early 80s, the US Navy built as many as 31 Spruance-class destroyers, a group of warships which served as the primary destroyer for the service in ...

Today in U.S. 1856 - Cdr. Andrew H. Foote lands at Canton, China, with 287 Sailors and Marines to stop attacks by Chinese on U.S. military and civilians. 1917 - USS Kanawha, Noma and Wakiva sink ...

KEY WEST, Fla. (NNS) -- USS Spruance (DDG 111) became the newest member of the Navy's Pacific fleet after being placed in commission during a sunset ceremony at Naval Air Station Key West Oct. 1. The ...