The USS Long Beach (CGN-9) holds the distinction of being the first nuclear-powered surface vessel in the U.S. Navy, a milestone often overshadowed by the more renowned USS Nautilus and USS ...

The USS Long Beach (CGN-9), commissioned in 1961, made history as the world's first nuclear-powered surface vessel. Originally designed as a smaller frigate, the ship was redesigned to the size of a ...

Dick Ramsey was on board the USS Nevada off the coast of France during the Allied invasion on D-Day, June 6, 1944 — 2½ years after the battleship nearly sank in shallow water at Pearl ...

Some of these events include active-duty ship tours. On May 22 we see the arrival of the Coast Guard Cutter Terrell Horne and ...

Naval guns and Army rifles combined to win one of the toughest beachheads the Allied forces have established on the Normandy ...

U.S. defense officials have said they are not aware of any attacks on USS Eisenhower after Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed to have launched a barrage of missiles at the aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.

The D-Day invasion was the largest amphibious invasion in military history, but it was only the first footprint of the Allies ...

The battleship USS Nevada joined 282 allied ships that provided naval gunfire, troop and equipment transport and other ...

Born in Long Beach and attended Poly H.S., leaving prior to graduation to join the Navy in August 1944. He served on the USS Nevada in the Pacific at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was a member of the ...

The USS Nevada opens fire in the Utah Beach area on June 6, 1944. U.S. National Archives Witnesses also said a long line of ...

BATAVIA, N.Y. – Local World War II veterans were honored on Thursday, eighty years after the invasion of Normandy. The ...