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Naval History Magazine - October 2001 Vol. 15 Number 5

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Raising Monitor

Issue: Naval History Magazine - October 2001 Vol. 15 Number 5

Three organizations have teamed to raise deteriorating parts and artifacts—including the steam condenser, a main component of the steam engine—from from one...

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  They Called Her 'Carole Baby'

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Raising Monitor

Three organizations have teamed to raise deteriorating parts and artifacts—including the steam condenser, a main...

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They Called Her 'Carole Baby'

On 24 October 1944, the U.S. Seventh Fleet dispatched 39 torpedo patrol (PT) boats through Leyte Gulf and Surigao Strait into the Mindanao Sea to...

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'That Wasn't Bravery . . .'

'. . . Hell, I was scared to death,' is what Private First Class William Crane said about his heroic deed one day in 1944 on...

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A sleepy brown sailor, keeping a lookout, hung in the rigging by a single hand and one bare foot while letting the rest of his body bend and sway...

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