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Off the Aleutians, the USS Grunion resides, having disappeared 66 years ago
By Star-Bulletin staff
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 05, 2008
The Navy has confirmed the wreckage of a sunken vessel found last year off the Aleutian Islands is that of the USS Grunion, a submarine that disappeared during World War II.
01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, July 26, 2008
Rhode Island News
By Daniel Barbarisi
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE –– At 6:02 p.m. last night, the Russian missile submarine Juliett 484 rose from under the water, its bow majestically breaking through the surface of Providence Harbor to gasps and cheers from the American military crews who have worked for a year to raise it.
The sub rose suddenly, shooting from the harbor floor to the surface in perhaps 10 seconds, 6 full hours after salvage teams had started pumping water out of it.
Frank Lennon, president of the Russian Sub Museum, summed up his reaction in one word: Wow.
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By WILLIAM S. LIND
Published: June 13, 2008 at 11:36 AM
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) — Robert Doughty’s “Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War,” published in 2005, completes his trilogy on the French army from 1914 to 1940.
Both of Doughty’s other books, “The Seeds of Disaster,” which is the definitive history of the French army doctrinal development between the wars, and “The Breaking Point,” the story of the French defeat at Sedan in 1940 when the Second and Third Generations of modern war met head on, are in the canon.
For those new to Fourth Generation war — 4GW — literature, the canon is the list of seven books that, read in the correct order, take the reader from the First Generation into the Fourth. It can be found as an appendix to “FMFM 1-A, Fourth Generation War,” on the Defense and the National Interest Web site.
Bonhomme Richard will be the target for retiring research sub
By Jennifer Grogan , Published on 5/30/2008
Groton
THE U.S. NAVY PLANS TO USE ITS only research submarine to help a local foundation find the wreck of John Paul Jones’ Revolutionary War ship the Bonhomme Richard.
It was Sept. 23, 1779, and cannonballs from the HMS Serapis had shredded the hull of the Bonhomme Richard.
Jones was in command of a burning, sinking ship. Half of his crew members were dead or wounded.
His adversary shouted to him, asking if he would surrender.
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