Overview :Running programs in Chico in the 1970s were similar to those elsewhere. Famed University of Oregon coach Bill Bowerman had introduced the sp... Read More
Overview :From 1953-1994, sixty-five U.S. Navy ocean minesweepers (MSOs) swept mines; searched the seafloor for downed aircraft, sunken ships, and los... Read More
Overview :As the Korean Conflict wore on, frigates, destroyer escorts, cruisers, and battleships of the U.S. Navy, and combatant ships from eight othe... Read More
Overview :During the Vietnam War, 270 U.S. Navy and four Royal Australian Navy warships served at various times on the gunline. Within this armada wer... Read More
Overview :Cloaked by jungle foliage, the unheralded seaplane tenders operated ahead of the Fleet, like the Navy's famed PT boats. As Halsey's South Pa... Read More
Overview :At the commencement of World War II, the Navy and the Army-woefully lacking small ships able to ply shallow, reef-infested South and Southwe... Read More
Overview :During the Vietnam War, 136 U.S. Navy and three Royal Australian Navy Service Force ships served in Vietnam. It was not glamorous duty, and ... Read More
Overview :A total of 558 Medium Landing Ships were built in WWII. The modest 203-foot ships had bow ramps like those of much larger LSTs, and a deck h... Read More
Overview :During World War II, German and Italian aircraft bombed and sank thirteen Allied hospital ships (7 British, 5 Greek, 1 Norwegian) in the Eur... Read More
Overview :During the Vietnam War, 142 "gators" (amphibious ships) served in the combat zone. As deeper-draft ships landed Marines on assault beaches b... Read More
Overview :When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, the Royal Navy was deficient in minelayers needed to try to hold enemy forces at bay... Read More
Overview :During the deadly Battle of the Mediterranean fought from 10 June 1940 to 2 May 1945, sailors aboard Allied ships faced daily threat of atta... Read More
Overview :U.S. Navy cargo ships, among the most unglamorous military vessels, kept the supply lines running through the incredible expanses of the Pac... Read More
Overview :The story of the South Atlantic campaign in World War II, and that of the U.S. 4th Fleet and Royal Navy forces in the theater, was primarily... Read More
Overview :In the Pacific in World War II, the dearth of US Navy fleet aviation capabilities became acute following the loss, in 1942, of four aircraft... Read More
Overview :American and British light fleet aircraft carriers, an expedient of war at a time of dire need in World War II, answered their nations' call... Read More
Overview :Imagine being a fighter or bomber pilot. You and your crew have been in the heat of battle when, suddenly, your plane catches fire or your e... Read More
Overview :In January 1942, following the United States' entry into WWII, German U-boats began a reign of terror off America's Eastern Seaboard; over t... Read More
Overview :Chico State, long known as a party school-Playboy magazine ranked it number one in the nation from 1987 through 2002-offered students an inv... Read More
Overview :Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Navy obtained approximately 700 vessels from private owners, armed them, designated them as patrol... Read More