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    We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

    -- Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

    USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656), 1966-1993

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    USS George Washington Carver, a Benjamin Franklin class nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine, was built at Newport News, Virginia. Commissioned in June 1966, she commenced strategic deterrence patrols soon thereafter with the Polaris missile. In 1972-74, she was refitted with the larger Poseidon missile. Operating out of Holy Loch, Scotland, George Washington Carver carried out a total of 73 patrols in the Atlantic area up to mid-1991, when she was transferred to the Pacific for final operations. In October 1992, she began inactivation preparations and was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in March 1993.

    USS George Washington Carver was named in honor of the African-American scientist George Washington Carver (1864-1943).
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    1862: Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.

    1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas.

    1898: The United States declares war on Spain.

    1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey.

    1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory.

    1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea.

    1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands.


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