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New 3D images show wreck of USS Monitor, iconic Civil War ship that sank in 1862

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More than 160 years after the USS Monitor sank off the coast of North Carolina, new 3D images are offering a detailed look at an iconic Civil War ship that helped shape naval technology and marine architecture in the 19th century.  First launched in January 1962 from Greenpoint, New York, the Monitor was the U.S. … Read more

US aims to exhume and identify 88 USS Arizona crew members buried as unknowns after Pearl Harbor

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HONOLULU — The U.S. military plans to exhume the remains of 88 sailors and Marines killed when the USS Arizona was bombed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and who were buried as unknowns in a Honolulu cemetery. It’s part of an effort to use advances in DNA technology to attach names to those … Read more