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By DAVE RESS | The Daily Press | Published: December 23, 2020 NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Tribune News Service) Sometimes even a maintenance facility needs maintenance, and after a four-month overhaul, Little Creek’s floating drydock will be ready to start working on vessels next month. The drydock, named Dynamic, is 76 years old the oldest active vessel in the Navy’s fleet after the sailing frigate USS Constitution. But Dynamic is a lot busier than Old Ironsides. “Dynamic has been operating a long time and remains a crucial asset to our sailors. We look forward to having her operational again,” said Dynamic’s commanding officer, Lt. Gaston Hatfield.
led his fellow soldiers to a key place in the battle and he was one of the first african-americans awarded the congressional medal of honor. chris: in another gallery, one of the surviving higgins boats, the landing craft used to hit the beaches at normandy. you have one of the actual landing craft from d-day. to visualize thousands of young soldiers storming the beaches and the higgins boats allowed them to get to the beach and to win the war. chris: some items mark victory. others, such as pow pajamas, speak to soldiers resilience and fighting spirit. people never broke their heroic, and what they did before they were taken prisoners and during that timeframe.
led his fellow soldiers to a key place in the battle and he was one of the first african-americans awarded the congressional medal of honor. chris: in another gallery, one of the surviving higgins boats, the landing craft used to hit the beaches at normandy. you have one of the actual landing craft from d-day. to visualize thousands of young soldiers storming the beaches and the higgins boats allowed them to get to the beach and to win the war. chris: some items mark victory. others, such as pow pajamas, speak to soldiers resilience and fighting spirit. people never broke their heroic, and what they did before they were taken prisoners and during that timeframe.
an advance diving technique diving with a mixture of mostly helium, and diver propulsion vehicles to move us around. we re laden with heavy tanks and using closed circuit breathers, so quite a technical dive and a lot to be considered. it is at about 83 metres deep so getting to the limit a human diver can take really. it sounds like an extraordinary feat and the submarine itself, the uss grenadier is quite an extraordinary story and an emotional one. tell us a little bit more about it. i think so. it was out on patrol in the area when it was attacked by some japanese aeroplane. and the vessel was damaged, it sunk to the bottom. they spent 13 hours trying to repair the systems, managed to get back to the surface so that they were surrounded and they had to basically scuttle the ship so tank it on purpose to stop it from falling into enemy hands. then they were taken prisoner and there s been some