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Typhoon Cobra, also known as the Typhoon of 1944 or Halsey's Typhoon (named after Admiral William Halsey Jr.), was the United States Navy designation for a powerful tropical cyclone that struck the United States Pacific Fleet in December 1944, during World War II. The storm sank three destroyers, killed 790 sailors, damaged 9 other warships ...
William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. (30 October 1882 – 16 August 1959) was an American Navy admiral during World War II.He is one of four officers to have attained the rank of five-star fleet admiral of the United States Navy, the others being William Leahy, Ernest J. King, and Chester W. Nimitz.
The 1944 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1944, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean .
In all, 790 people were killed in what was considered the worst natural disaster in U.S. Navy history. Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been covering national and ...
The Caine Mutiny Original film poster Directed by Edward Dmytryk Written by Stanley Roberts Michael Blankfort Based on The Caine Mutiny (1951 novel) by Herman Wouk Produced by Stanley Kramer Starring Humphrey Bogart José Ferrer Van Johnson Fred MacMurray Robert Francis May Wynn Tom Tully Cinematography Franz Planer Edited by Henry Batista William A. Lyon Music by Max Steiner Production ...
Brooklyn Navy Yard: 7 March 1933 31 January 1934 11 January 1935 — Lost in Typhoon Cobra, 17 December 1944 Macdonough DD-351 Boston Navy Yard: 15 May 1933 22 August 1934 15 March 1935 22 October 1945 Scrapped 1946 Worden DD-352 Puget Sound Navy Yard: 29 December 1932 27 October 1934 15 January 1935 — Grounded near Amchitka, Alaska, 12 ...
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro on Wednesday fully exonerated 258 Black sailors who were charged with mutiny and refusing orders after they were being forced to return to do dangerous work ...
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