Known as the “dancing mouse” due to its slippery movements in that final, fatal fight with the Imperial Japanese Navy, the ...
The close proximity to Japanese forces infuriated Japanese Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo, resulting in him instructing Japanese ...
The USS Edsall played a pivotal role in the Allied Pacific campaign in World War II. More than 80 years after sinking in ...
"Captain Joshua Nix and his crew fought valiantly, evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers, before being attacked by 26 carrier-dive bombers, taking only one fatal hit.
More than 80 years after its tragic sinking, the USS Edsall, a U.S. Navy destroyer, has been located on the seafloor of the ...
The 314-foot-long destroyer didn’t go down without a fight. The Edsall’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Joshua Nix, executed evasive maneuvers for more than an hour that led Japanese observers ...
"Captain Joshua Nix and his crew fought valiantly, evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers before being attacked by 26 carrier dive bombers, taking only one fatal hit.
“Capt. Joshua Nix and his crew fought valiantly, evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers, before being attacked by 26 carrier-dive bombers, taking only one fatal hit ...
“Capt. Joshua Nix and his crew fought valiantly, evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers, before being attacked by 26 carrier-dive bombers, taking only one fatal hit,” Caroline ...
It was subsequently relegated to convoy duty, but that didn’t stop Captain Joshua Nix from eventually engaging with a Japanese convoy. According to an official historical account of the ship put ...
“Captain Joshua Nix and his crew fought valiantly, evading 1,400 shells from Japanese battleships and cruisers, before being attacked by 26 carrier-dive bombers, taking only one fatal hit ...