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In a career that dates back to the 1970s, Ivan Nahem has written and performed music that defies convention. The vocalist and ...

Ford-class aircraft carriers would be named ... 50-caliber machine gun on the battleship USS West Virginia and was the first Black person to be awarded the Navy Cross, the service's second-highest ...

As Wilmington has grown, we've had more presidential activity over the past quarter-century than in all the decades before combined.

The USS IOWA will be the 24th Virginia-class submarine ... The most recent was a battleship that served from 1942 to 1949 and again from 1951 to 1958 and finally from 1984 to 1990 when she ...

At Third and Dock streets in downtown Wilmington there's a historical marker paying tribute to George Washington's "Southern tour," when in 1791 he took an extended trip through Virginia ...

Two future Ford-class aircraft carriers are being named after Presidents ... 50-caliber machine gun on the battleship USS West Virginia and was the first Black person to be awarded the Navy Cross, the ...

Rising in West Virginia and emptying into Chesapeake Bay ... the navy yard constructed some of the Navy’s most famous vessels, including second-class battleship Maine, battleship Arizona (Battleship ...

Levis Xixon was born in Leesburg, Virginia, in i36i ... Naval Academy, from which he was graduated No. I with the Class of 1882, and commissioned as midshipman. He had distinguished himself ...

Summary: The USS New Jersey, a World War II Iowa-class battleship and floating museum, is set for refurbishment, while the Block IV Virginia-class attack submarine PCU New Jersey (SSN 796) ...

The first two were battleships, commissioned in 1895 and 1914, respectively. The third was a Virginia-class guided-missile cruiser in service from 1977-93. The submarine is 377 feet long and has a ...