The Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer is named after Marine ... of Iwo Jima and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. Basilone is the only enlisted Marine to be honored ...
In this maneuver, BAC "Cantabria" simultaneously resupplied two American guided-missile destroyers, USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), on the port side (here we see it to the left of the Spanish ship), and ...