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This Day in Naval History - June 19

Story Number: NNS020418-27Release Date: 4/18/2002 9:35:00 PM
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1864 - USS Kearsarge sinks Confederate raider Alabama off France.
1944 - Battle of the Philippine Sea begins ("The Marianas Turkey Shoot").
1948 - Chief of Naval Operations assigns three destroyers to U.N. mediator for the Palestine truce.

 
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