Troops onboard the newest destroyer to join the Navy’s Pacific Fleet arrived in San Diego on Monday morning to hundreds of families and friends. USS Spruance is the second Navy ship to bear the name ...

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The Japs fought desperately this week in their own front yard. In one of the greatest air battles of the Pacific war, hundreds of Jap planes took to the air, flew against a U.S. task force which was ...

The USS Spruance sailed into Portland Thursday afternoon as part of the Rose Festival's Fleet Week. Oregonian photographer Michael Lloyd rode on the USS Spruance from the Port of Kalama into downtown ...

KEY WEST (CBS4) – The U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke–class Aegis Guided Missile Destroyer, the U.S.S. Spruance, was commissioned Saturday evening in Key West. The ceremony took place at sunset on Key ...

USS Spruance sails to Portland for Rose Festival Fleet Week The USS Spruance, named for the Navy admiral who masterminded the Battle of Midway, sailed from the Port of Kalama to Portland to celebrate ...

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1987. Pp. 518. Illus., maps, charts, index. $34.95. ISBN:0-870-21562-0 Raymond Ames Spruance lived – and worked – in the shadow of William F. Halsey. Yet, it was ...

During the span of a decade from the early 70s to the early 80s, the US Navy built as many as 31 Spruance-class destroyers, a group of warships which served as the primary destroyer for the service in ...

“Regardless of the enemy design,” said the voice from Tokyo, “the war situation has increased with unprecedented seriousness—nay, furiousness.” Some examples: > Off the China coast Claire Chennault’s ...