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The Battle of the Caribbean refers to a naval campaign waged during World War II that was part of the Battle of the Atlantic, from 1941 to 1945. [3] German U-boats and Italian submarines attempted to disrupt the Allied supply of oil and other material. They sank shipping in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and attacked coastal targets ...
So Naval Base Trinidad became a key to keeping Panama Canal, Venezuela oil and the Caribbean open. The US Navy and US Army landed on Trinidad on September 2, 1940. Much of Naval Base Trinidad was built by private contractors in 1941 and in 1942 expanded by the Seabees of Naval Construction Battalions. Naval Base Trinidad also was a training ...
Navy PT Boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two, Washington Navy Yard DC December 1940 Patrol torpedo boat PT-30 PT-9 torpedo boat in Washington DC in 1940 Patrol torpedo boat PT-59 afrer gunboat conversion Solomon Islands The crew of PT 59 inspects the wreckage of the Japanese submarine I-1, sunk on 29 January 1943 at Kamimbo on Guadalcanal by HMNZS Kiwi and Moa after Operation Ke
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]
Jesse Barrett "Oley" Oldendorf (16 February 1887 – 27 April 1974) was an admiral in the United States Navy, famous for defeating a Japanese force in the Battle of Leyte Gulf during World War II. He also served as commander of the American naval forces during the early phase of the Battle of the Caribbean. In early 1942, a secret group of ...
Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from the material. They used a computer program to reverse the aging process.
Appointed lieutenant (junior grade) in the Chaplain Corps of the U.S. Navy Reserve on August 7, 1940, Chaplain O'Callahan advanced progressively in rank and attained that of commander in July 1945. His first assignment at sea was on USS Ranger , participating in Operation Torch off North Africa in 1942 and Operation Leader off Norway in 1943.
1939–1945 Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945) 1939 1 September Danzig Bay – German Stuka dive bombers destroy much of the Polish Navy; 1–3 September Battle of Hel – Surviving Polish warships engage German invasion fleet. All Polish ships are sunk or captured.