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A port bow view of the ship shows her aflame and listing to starboard, 15 September 1942. Men on the flight deck desperately battle the spreading inferno.

Disaster! The USS Wasp Was America's Weakest Aircraft Carrier During World War II

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The U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Spangenberg (DE-223) underway following her conversion to a radar picket destroyer escort. She was converted at the New York Naval Shipyard between June and September 1945.

The Hunt For I-16: How One Submarine Hunt Changed the Course of World War II

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Close Call: What If Imperial Japan Had Sunk America's Carriers at Pearl Harbor?

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How Much Damage Did U.S. Battleships Really Cause to Imperial Japan During World War II?

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The Tale Of the U.S. Navy Sinking Japan's Super Secret Aircraft Carrier

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See This Old Picture? Meet the Most Useless Aircraft Carrier Of All Time

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A Smaller Midway? Fighting Japan In The Solomon Isles Was Critical To Winning World War II

Imperial Japan's Two Best Military Leaders Could Not Agree On How To Beat America

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In 1938 and 1939 Imperial Japan and the Russia Nearly Went to Full-Scale War

Imperial Japan's Push To Control Asia Was Doomed From The Very Start

The U.S. Navy Shattered Japan's Aircraft Carriers In Attacks On Saipan, Guam, and Tinian

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Meet The Imperial Japanese Plane That Terrified The Allies

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Why Imperial Japan's Battleship-Turned Aircraft Carriers Was a Terrible Idea

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Check Out The Manned "Cherry Blossom" Missiles of Japan

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'Joe's Jokers': Meet Some of the Best Marine Aces of World War II

Revealed: Why Japan Gave Up On Building More World War II Aircraft Carriers

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