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8/30/2010 | Escaping A Submarine
NEW LONDON, Conn. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Escaping from a Navy jet is easy -- just pull the eject lever. But when you're in a submarine, more than 800 feet below the ocean's surface in frigid water, it ...
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8/30/2010 | Future Navy Submarine to Stick With Nuclear Mission
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Navy will focus the mission of its future strategic submarine solely on nuclear deterrence, and -- at least initially -- the vessel will carry the same type of ballistic missile ...
Link: http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20100810_2253.php |
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8/30/2010 | WWII Sub Vet, POW Receives Award
Groton - Ernest "Ernie" Plantz of Gales Ferry, a submarine veteran held captive by the Japanese for more than three and a half years during World War II, received a congressional award on Aug. 2 in a ...
Link: http://www.google.com/hws/search?hl=en&client=gateway&q=WWII+Sub+Vet%2C+POW+Receives+Award&Submit=Go |
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8/30/2010 | Homefront America Donates Backpacks to Families of Submariners
By MC2 April Currie
NAVAL BASE POINT LOMA, Calif. (Aug. 25, 2010) - Dave Miholic hands out school supplies to military family members as part of Homefront America's backpacks to military families program. More than 20 fa ... |
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8/30/2010 | 10 Years After Kursk Sinking, Questions Remain
MOSCOW — A stone seagull with outspread wings hovers motionlessly over a black granite block at St. Petersburg’s Serafimovskoye Cemetery. It is a monument to the 118 Russian sailors who went down in t ...
Link: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/europe/view/2010081110_years_after_kursk_sinking_ques |
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8/30/2010 | Memorial Service For Crew Of World War II Submarine U.S.S. Flier Might Bring Closure For Families
MUSKEGON — Families who never got to bury their loved ones after a submarine hit a mine and sank in the Pacific in World War II will finally see a video of the sunken vessel in Muskegon this week.
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Link: http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2010/08/memorial_service_for_crew_of_w.html |
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8/30/2010 | Naval Postgraduate School Pioneers "Seaweb" Undersea Sensor Networks
The Naval Postgraduate School is on the cutting edge of through-water acoustic communications technology enabling distributed autonomous ocean sensors to operate as an underwater wireless wide-area ne ...
Link: http://www.nps.edu/About/News/NPS-Pioneers-Seaweb-Underwater-Sensor-Networks.html |
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8/30/2010 | Tales from the Cold War
Groton - Thirty years ago, Thomas Fargo and Dmitry Zubkov traveled in some of the same waters on ballistic-missile submarines tasked with similar Cold War missions.
"I wouldn't talk specifics," a smi ...
Link: http://www.theday.com/article/20100814/NWS09/308149886/1018 |