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FLIR1 - Official footage of Tic-Tac UAP from the U.S. government for public release

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When Top Gun Pilots Tangled with a Baffling Tic-Tac-Shaped UFO

Fighter pilots and radar operators from the USS Nimitz describe their terrifying—and still inexplicable—2004 encounter.

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7 Brutal Ways Sailors Were Punished at Sea

On the high seas, ships had their own system of “law and order.”

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Pearl Harbor Survivor and WWII Veteran Paul Kennedy

Pearl Harbor Veteran Recalls Coming Eye-to-Eye With a Japanese Bomber

On the morning of December 7, 1941 Paul Kennedy found himself staring straight at an incoming Japanese fighter plane.

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The Navy Disaster That Earned JFK Two Medals for Heroism

In a harrowing ordeal, JFK helped ensure the survival of his men, taking actions that would earn him a Navy and Marine Corps Medal and a Purple Heart in World War II.

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1845

US Naval Academy opens

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1976

Women inducted into U.S. Naval Academy for the first time

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1776

World’s first submarine attack

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1775

Continental Congress authorizes first naval force

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