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In June 1957, after spending over 12 years resting on the Baltic Sea floor, U-2540 was recovered and refurbished at Howaldtswerke in Kiel. It was then commissioned as a research vessel by the Bundesmarine, serving as a test boat (Class 241) from September 1, 1960, to August 28, 1968. Upon its relaunch, the submarine was renamed Wilhelm Bauer in honor of the designer of the first German U-boat, the Brandtaucher, which was built in Kiel by August Howaldt in 1850. The ex-Type XXI Wilhelm Bauer originally designated as U-2540 rebuilt in service with the Bundesmarine in the 1960s.

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USS Antietam (CG 54) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser with a dead-stick berthing shift in Pearl Harbor in preparation for Friday, September 27 decommissioning – September 23, 2024

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In September 1951, HMS Unicorn became the first aircraft carrier to conduct a shore bombardment when she used her four twin-mount QF 4-inch Mk XVI dual-purpose guns to shell North Korean coast watchers at Chopekki Point.

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Sailors assigned to the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset (LPD 25) wave to the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59) during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 while underway in the Pacific Ocean, July 21. Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 27 to Aug. 1. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2024 is the 29th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

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On this day in 1994, USS Eisenhower (CVN-69) left Norfolk loaded with 58 Army helicopters and 2000 soldiers to take part in Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. It would be the largest Army air operation from an aircraft carrier since the Doolittle Raid in 1942.

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