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U.S. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment (3/6), 2d Marine Division pass word in a cleared building during Exercise Deep Water on Camp Lejeune, N.C., Aug. 1, 2020.

Best pics of the week: Aug. 16, 2020

From firefighting training to shooting the M240 at the range to clearing buildings at Exercise Deep and more, here's this week's Frontline Photos.

4 years ago

Torpedo Junction: The South Pacific’s brutal underwater war

To beat back or blunt the first Allied offensive in the Pacific, Japan needed to cut the supply lifeline. They failed.

By John Prados, HistoryNet.com

5 years ago

Presidents’ Day pause: How ‘Uncle Sam’s Web-feet’ helped swing an election for Abe Lincoln

The U.S. Navy's triumph at Mobile Bay, combined with victorious Federal ground campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, helped reelect Abraham Lincoln and doomed the Confederacy to defeat.

By Gerald D. Swick, Civil War Times Magazine

5 years ago

Meet the unstoppable Mr. Smalls

He would go on to share intelligence with the U.S. Navy, fight in 17 naval battles, rise to the rank of major general, overcome illiteracy, publish a newspaper, win state and congressional offices, serve as a U.S. collector of customs and become master of his master’s plantation house. But first he had to hijack a Confederate steamer.

By Gerald S. Henig, America's Civil War Magazine

5 years ago

Contractor pleads guilty to corruption in Coast Guard project

The defendant was tied to a U.S. Coast Guard project in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and proposed deals with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine.

6 years ago

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