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Commander Winfield Scott Schley (4th from left) and men who rescued Greely Expedition survivors (Public domain, Wikimedia Images) In 1881, Cdr. Winfield Scott Schley was at the Charlestown Navy Yard reading a newspaper article about the US Army Signal Corps’ ambitious Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. He considered it unusual— even foolhardy—that the US Navy wasn’t […]
US Navy was watching Russia’s aircraft carrier in Mediterranean Sea The US Navy’s Sixth Fleet was tracking Russian aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov in the Mediterranean in 2011 because the Americans feared the Russian ship might start sinking, Brandon Weichert, a columnist for The National Interest said. Photo: National Archives and Records Administration by Lt. […]