He sent the United States Navy on its first foreign expedition to punish the states of Morocco, Tripoli,Tunis and Algiers.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

In recent years the international community has deployed navy ships to guard the area in an effort to fight piracy.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

It is now a major part of the United States Navy Submarine Force Museum and Library near New London,Connecticut.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

He says that is how the Navy will continue to have what he calls the "best submarine force in the world."

VOA: special.2010.05.21

He finished the book by writing at night during his two years of service in the United States Navy.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

In nineteen fifty-one, Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover urged the United States Congress to provide money for the first nuclear-powered submarine.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

A month later, on the morning of May fifth, American Navy pilot Alan Shepard crawled into his little Mercury spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

It also needed a canal across Central America so the Navy could sail quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Then,shortly after sunset on April twelfth, Navy special operations forces feared that Captain Phillips' life was in immediate danger.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

In eighteen forty-one, the British navy officer James Ross discovered areas now called the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Congress reduced the surplus even more by approving money to build coastal defenses and to buy warships for the Navy.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

A ship-building program begun fifteen years earlier had made the American Navy one of the strongest in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Women make up about fifteen percent of the Navy's more than three hundred thirty thousand service members.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

He says the Navy has to choose submariners from the widest possible group of skilled service members.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Fuller's good navy record won him a short-term appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis,Maryland.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

The Navy says about twenty women will be chosen as the first group to serve on submarines.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

She will also become one of the first women to serve on a United States Navy submarine.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

But he was killed in nineteen forty-four during service as a Navy pilot in World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

This week, tensions continued to rise over the sinking of a South Korean navy ship in March.

VOA: special.2010.05.29