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		<title>H.L. Hunley Fully Visible for the First Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 17, 1864, Confederate-built H.L. Hunley became the world&#8217;s first successful combat submarine when it attacked and sank the 1240-short ton screw sloop USS Housatonic at the entrance  to the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. H.L. Hunley surfaced briefly to signal a successful mission to comrades on shore with a blue magnesium light, after which it was never seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 7th, 1941 The Japanese Attack  Pearl Harbor         2011 marks the 70-year anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the beginning of American involvement in World War II.  In December 1972, Proceedings published a first-hand retrospective of the event, written by a Naval Academy graduate and professor, who also served as Executive Secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eugene A. Barham:  A JO Steps Up to the Plate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During combat, situations often arise that cause junior officers to step up to the plate, testing their mettle. Eugene A. Barham’s critical moment came during the Guadalcanal campaign. “Slim” Barham had graduated from the Naval Academy in 1935 and had become engineer officer of the destroyer Laffey at her commissioning on 31 March 1942. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sullivan Brothers Lost at Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 13 November 1942 the light cruiser Juneau (CL 52) sank off Guadalcanal, with the loss of all but ten of her crew. Among the dead were all five brothers of the Sullivan family from Waterloo, Iowa. Albert, Francis, George, Joseph, and Madison Sullivan had enlisted together on 3 January 1942, with condition that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neutrality Patrol Seizes German Prize, 6 November 1941</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While on neutrality patrol in the Atlantic Ocean near the Equator on 6 November 1941, the light cruiser OMAHA (CL 4) and the destroyer SOMERS (DD 381) sighted a suspicious vessel. Although flying the American flag and carrying the name WILLMOTO of Philadelphia on her stern, the freighter refused to satisfactorily identify herself and took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First U.S. Ship Lost in WWII, 31 October 1941</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commissioned on 24 September 1920, the destroyer REUBEN JAMES (DD 245) served in the Atlantic Fleet, operating in the Adriatic, Mediterranean, and off Nicaragua, before decommissioning at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 20 January 1931. She recommissioned on 9 March 1932, and upon the outbreak of war in Europe in September 1939 she joined the Neutrality Patrol, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands occurred when Task Forces 16 and 17, under Rear Adm. Thomas C. Kinkaid and Rear Adm. George D. Murray, respectively, fought numerically superior Japanese forces under Vice Adm. Nagumo Chuichi that supported an overland thrust by Japanese troops at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. SBD-3 Dauntlesses of [...]]]></description>
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