On this day in 1943, U.S. Naval Intelligence decrypted a message that revealed the travel schedule for ADM Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. Four days later, P-38s flew 600 miles and shot down the plane carrying the man who had planned the attack on Pearl Harbour.

HMS Trumpeter and HMS Charger sailed from Harstad in company with the RN MTXG (Mine & Threat Exploitation Group) embarked. MTXG deployed the Remus 300 UUV to detect and classify objects of interest during the exercise.

USS Mount Whitney LCC-20 as she participated in a memorial ceremony off the coast of Normandy, France, while in the English Channel, May 26, 2020. Mount Whitney was the U.S. 6th Fleet flagship, homeported in Gaeta, and operates with a combined crew of U.S. Sailors and Military Sealift Command civil service mariners.