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During the move into southern Germany, on January 26, 1945, two tank destroyers of the battalion participated in the engagement for which Lieutenant Audie Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor.
It deployed into France in April 1945, equipped with M18 Hellcat tank destroyers, attached to 16th Armored Division.
The battalion sailed for Normandy in July, and was landed at Utah Beach on the 18th, equipped with M18 Hellcat tank destroyers.
It arrived in France on 20 January 1945, equipped with M18 Hellcat tank destroyers.
On 17 February 1915, the Spanish Cortes (Parliament) passed a navy law authorising a large programme of construction for the Spanish Navy, including three destroyers of British design, the Alsedo class, to be built in Spain at the Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval (SECN) dockyard at Cartagena.
Once the US was able to ramp up construction of destroyers and destroyer escorts, as well as bringing over highly effective anti-submarine techniques learned from the British from experiences in the Battle of the Atlantic, they would take a significant toll on Japanese submarines, which tended to be slower and could not dive as deep as their German counterparts.
The US Navy's first torpedo boat destroyers were produced on the recommendation of an 1898 war plans board formed to prosecute the Spanish-American War and chaired by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt.
The Battle off Noordhinder Bank on 1 May 1915 was a naval action between a squadron of four British naval trawlers supported by a flotilla of four British destroyers, and a pair of German torpedo boats from the Flanders Flotilla.
He is later confronted by Communications officer Lieutenant Thomas Keefer (Fred MacMurray) in the shower: "Sure we pick up the skeds from the Betelgeuse. They guard for all destroyers in port. It's standard procedure," shouts Keefer.
Much of X-COM's equipment is used by the Navy in its land-based test and development sites which support the Cruisers and Destroyers that contain the AEGIS Combat System, considered to have the most advanced tracking and combat system in the world.
Rear Admiral Morton Deyo, heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa (flag), heavy cruiser Quincy, battleship Nevada, HMS light cruiser Glasgow and light cruiser Enterprise, six destroyers: Ellyson, Rodman, Gherardi, Hambleton, Emmons, and British 9th Minesweeping Flotilla.
Although designed with cutting-edge technology for the 1950s, by the mid-1970s it was clear to the Navy that the Charles F. Adams-class destroyers were not prepared to deal with modern air attacks and guided missile.
Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin class destroyers were the second class of ships to be produced in the Republic of Korea Navy's destroyer mass-production program named Korean Destroyer eXperimental, which paved the way for the navy to become a blue-water navy.
The Destroyers were sold to John H. McConnell, founder of Worthington Industries and majority owner of the Blue Jackets, and accountant Jim Renacci.
Type 45 destroyer, a class of Royal Navy air defence destroyers, launched from 2006 to 2010
In the early 1920s, the Royal Swedish Navy operated 10 destroyers and 29 first class torpedo boats.
:Disabled by British destroyers on 16 April 1941 during the Battle of the Tarigo Convoy, she ran aground with 141 of her 205 crew killed in action, but she was later salvaged and put back into service.
While on patrol in the Atlantic with the destroyers, Le Fantasque and Le Terrible, she intercepted and captured the German freighter Santa Fé, on 25 October 1939, On 14 June 1940, Dupleix participated in the French raid on Genoa, with sister ships Foch and Colbert.
On 14 June 1940, the French 1st cruiser division with Algérie, Foch and escorting destroyers bombarded Vado near Genoa.
The Friesland Class destroyers were built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in the 1950s.
Beagle-class destroyer, a class of sixteen Royal Navy destroyers launched in 1909 and 1910
On the afternoon of 6 June, he took part in strikes flown against the heavy cruisers Mogami and Mikuma and their screening destroyers, scoring a damaging near miss on Mogami in the face of heavy antiaircraft fire.
The Halland class destroyers were two ships built for the Swedish Navy in the 1950s.
From 1926 to 1928, he commanded the cruiser HMS Coventry, also serving as the Chief Staff Officer to the Rear-Admiral (Destroyers) Commanding Destroyer Flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet.
Hunt-class destroyer, escort destroyers which served in the Second World War
The Impavido class were the second group of destroyers built for the Italian Navy (MMI) after World War II and the first Italian Guided Missile destroyers.
A naval task force of cruisers and destroyers from the 7th Fleet under Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid—which was Gen. Macarthur's naval command—would protect the landing forces on their movements to shore and then remain to provide gunfire as needed.
At 6:10 pm on 20 June, as part of "Force B" (with Hiyō, Junyō, Nagato, Mogami and eight destroyers), the Ryūhō was attacked by four TBF Avenger torpedo bombers from the Enterprise, which were loaded with 500 lb (227 kg) bombs.
The entire task force consisted of the aircraft carrier Zuikaku, the light aircraft carriers Zuihō, Jun'yō and Ryūjō, the heavy cruisers Maya, Takao, Myōkō, Haguro and Nachi, the light cruisers Abukuma, Kiso and Tama, and 15 destroyers.
The cruisers Maya, Suzuya, Tenryu and destroyers Kazagumo, Makigumo, Michishio and Yugumo accompanied, while the Kirishima, Atago, Takao, Nagara and six destroyers formed a screening unit.
L and M-class destroyer or Laforey class, a class of 16 Royal Navy destroyers launched from 1939 to 1941
L and M-class destroyer, a class of Royal Navy destroyers launched 1939–1942 and that served in World War II
In a 1950s action-adventure film about Pearl Harbor, for example, a costly sequence which depicts the bombing and sinking of US destroyers by exploding and sinking actual, decommissioned vessels would be called the "money shot" of the film.
Atheltemplar returned to Great Britain with Convoy HG 9 which left Port Said on 19 November 1939, but on the afternoon of 14 December 1939, she struck a mine laid by German destroyers off the Tyne Estuary.
In early 1963, the minesweepers were relieved by a division of destroyers (the DESOTO patrols) who appear to have carried out the same electronic surveillance operations conducted by the minesweepers.
At 17:45 the raiding force embarked upon the two destroyers, Scimitar and Saladin and accompanied by six Royal Air Force air-sea rescue launches, who would take them from the destroyers to the landing beaches, they set out for the Guernsey.
Royal Navy destroyers cruised up and down the Palestinian coast, and Royal Air Force warplanes overflew southern Tel Aviv and Jaffa.
S and T-class destroyer, a class of 16 destroyers, launched in 1942 and 1943
The Toricelli was on patrol in the Gulf of Aden on 23 June 1940 when she was intercepted by a Royal Navy battle group comprising the destroyers HMS Kandahar, HMS Khartoum, HMS Kingston and the sloop HMS Shoreham.
In the Surigao Strait between Leyte and Dinagat Islands on the evening of 24 October 1944, he contacted the U.S. 7th Fleet under Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf, which consisted of six battleships, eight cruisers, 29 destroyers, and 39 motor torpedo boats.
Training took place in the Firth of Forth, where Cuckoos launched practice torpedoes at targets towed by destroyers.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) had two modified Sovremenniy destroyers delivered in December 1999 and November 2000.
During the Solomon Islands campaign, on 6 July 1943, Akiyama commanded the 3rd Destroyer Squadron, which consisted of 10 destroyers loaded with 2,600 combat troops, bound for Vila on Kolombangara.
This was found to be inadequate in combat, and the result was a "fleet torpedo boat" class (Flottentorpedoboot), which were significantly larger, up to 1,700 tons, comparable to small destroyers.
I-27 was sunk by the British destroyers HMS Paladin and HMS Petard off Addu Atoll on 12 February 1944 after it had sunk the troopship SS Khedive Ismail with the loss of about 1,300 lives.
U and V-class destroyer, a class of destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1942–1943
V and W-class destroyer, a class of Royal Navy destroyers built late in World War I
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W and Z-class destroyer, a class of Royal Navy destroyers launched in 1943–1944
Gyrinus was the earliest round-bilge Semi-Planing Mono-Hull ('SPMH') designed by Sir John Isaac Thornycroft FRS, the great Victorian engineer, previously the designer and builder of the world's first torpedo boats and torpedo boat 'Destroyers'.
W and Z-class destroyer, a class of destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1943–1944