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Coast Guard rescues 12 after ship runs aground in US Virgin Islands
The U.S. Coast Guard says it has rescued 12 people who abandoned a large cargo ship that ran aground near the U.S. Virgin Islands.
US Navy sends warship near disputed islands a day after China’s ’carrier killer’ missile test
The guided-missile destroyer Mustin “asserted navigational rights and freedoms" in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands.
US warship sails contested waters in South China Sea after White House rejects China’s maritime claims there
The guided-missile destroyer Ralph Johnson steamed near the disputed Spratly Islands Tuesday.
US rejects nearly all Chinese claims in South China Sea
The Trump administration escalated its actions against China on Monday by stepping squarely into one of the most sensitive regional issues dividing them and rejecting outright nearly all of Beijing’s significant maritime claims in the South China Sea.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
US naval buildup in Indo-Pacific seen as warning to China
For the first time in nearly three years, three American aircraft carriers are patrolling the Indo-Pacific waters, a massive show of naval force in a region roiled by spiking tensions between the U.S. and China and a sign that the Navy has bounced back from the worst days of the coronavirus outbreak.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Was Iwo Jima worth the cost?
After a staggering loss of life on the island, American military leaders scrambled to justify the invasion
By Robert S. Burrell, MHQ — The Quarterly Journal of Military History
A governor, his uncle and a boat that’s on eternal patrol
'You don't really understand what missing in action means until you see my grandmother every day expecting her son Tommy to come back soon.'
By Julia Bergman, The Day
Navy conducts year’s first FONOP in South China Sea
Sunday's target was Fiery Cross Reef, officials said.
Setback in the Solomons
Punctuated by tactical ineptitude, the World War II Battle of Rennell Island slowed American momentum in the South Pacific.
By John Wukovits, World War II