140K views · 1.9K shares | USS America conducts flight operations in the #PhilippineSea with aircraft assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265. USS America is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with Philippine #FriendsPartnersAllies and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. : U.S. Navy | U.S. Embassy in the Philippines | Facebook

Commanded by Lt. Cmdr. George Street III, USS Tirante tore through Japanese waters in the spring of 1945. She sank tankers off Nagasaki, ambushed a troopship carrying hundreds of soldiers, and slipped into a mined harbor at night to destroy three more ships before escaping untouched. For his fearless leadership, Street received the Medal of Honor—and Tirante earned her place among the war’s most daring submarines. #WWII #USSTirante #GeorgeStreet #SubmarineWarfare #PacificWar #WW2History | The Re

On this day in 1944, the light carrier USS Princeton met her end off the coast of Luzon during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Around 9:38 a.m., a single Japanese dive bomber broke through the clouds and dropped one bomb—just one—that tore through her flight deck and set off catastrophic fires among the fueled and armed aircraft below. For six long hours, crews from nearby ships like USS Birmingham and USS Irwin fought to save her. Then, at 3:24 p.m., a massive explosion (captured here in film) ripped

14K views · 24 reactions | An Australian search team has solved a decades old mystery uncovering the wreckage of a ship sunk during WWII. Almost 1000 Australian POWs died when a Japanese transporter was torpedoed. It is hoped the discovery will help honour their lives and tell a story, long forgotten. 7NEWS at 6pm | www.7NEWS.com.au #7NEWS | 7NEWS Adelaide | Facebook