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  United States Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Navy is administered by the Department of the Navy, led by the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV).
United States naval aviation fully came of age in World War II, when it became clear following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the Battle of Midway that aircraft carriers and the planes that they carried had replaced the battleship as the greatest weapon on the seas.
Navy Corpsmen and Chaplains are generally accepted as brother Marines and frequently prefer to stay with the Marines (even though the duty is usually harder) because of the "band of brothers" attitude that develops.
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 United States Navy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The navy was a part of the conflict from the very beginning of American involvement to the very end of the war, and proved to be a vital element in the success of the Allies.
United States naval strategy changed to that of forward deployment in support of U.S. allies with an emphasis on carrier battle groups.Palmer, Michael A. "The Navy: The Transoceanic Period, 1945-1992".
Current plans in the United States Navy call for keeping the battleships on the NVR until the naval surface fire support gun and missile development programs achieve operational capability, which is expected to occur sometime between now and 2008.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/United_States_Navy   (7503 words)

  
 List of United States Navy ships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The List of United States Navy ships is a comprehensive listing of all ships to have been commissioned by the United States Navy during the history of that service.
For lists of ships by ship type or designation, use the navigation sidebar to the right.
The U.S. Navy maintains its official list of ships past and present at the Naval Register, although it does not include early vessels.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_United_States_Navy   (278 words)

  
 Benjamin F. Sands, Rear Admiral, United States Navy
Rear Admiral Benjamin F. Sands (11 February 1811 — 30 June 1883) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Sands was appointed Midshipman in the United States Navy on 1 April 1828.
He was appointed a midshipman in the navy from his native state, 1 April, 1828, and passed through the successive grades of promotion until he received the rank of Rear Admiral, 27 April, 1871, and was placed on the retired list on reaching the age of 62 years, 11 February, 1874.
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 Pearl Harbor Attack: Index of Action Reports
The United States, which had important political and economic interests in East Asia, was alarmed by these Japanese moves.
Nagumo's fleet assembled in the remote anchorage of Tankan Bay in the Kurile Islands and departed in strictest secrecy for Hawaii on 26 November 1941.
The Navy air bases at Ford Island and Kaneohe Bay, the Marine airfield at Ewa and the Army Air Corps fields at Bellows, Wheeler and Hickam were all bombed and strafed as other elements of the attacking force began their assaults on the ships moored in Pearl Harbor.
www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq66-1.htm   (1340 words)

  
 United States Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Continental Navy was established by the Continental Congress on October 13 1775 who authorized the procurement fitting out and dispatch of two armed vessels to in search of munitions ships supplying the British Army in America.
During the American Civil War the Navy was an innovator in use of ironclad warships but after the war slipped into A modernization program beginning in the 1880s brought the US into the first of the world's navies by the beginning the 20th century.
The Navy saw relatively little action during World War I but the primary goal of the attack on Pearl Harbor was to cripple the Navy in Pacific Ocean.
www.freeglossary.com /United_States_Navy   (2961 words)

  
 List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy
This list of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy includes all types in the main hull numbering sequence, consisting of hull classification symbols CV, CVA, CVB, CVL, and CVN.
The active carriers of the US Navy as of June 1, 2004 are the Kitty Hawk-class carrier USS Kitty Hawk, the Enterprise, the John F. Kennedy, and the Nimitz-class carriers Nimitz, Eisenhower, Carl Vinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John C. Stennis, Harry S. Truman and Ronald Reagan.
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 US Navy in WW1
The destroyers were part of the at least 36 United States destroyers that reached European waters in 1917-18, many of them based at Queenstown, Ireland, and St Nazaire and Brest, France.
In 1917 the programme of large ship construction was suspended to concentrate on destroyers (including the large 'flush decker' classes, 50 of which ended up in the Royal Navy in 1940), submarine-chasers, submarines, and merchantmen to help replace the tremendous losses due to unrestricted U-boat attacks.
Based at St Nazaire on eastern Atlantic escort duties, 'Chauncey' (Lt Cdr Walter Reno) was with a convoy on the night of the 19th/20th, when she was cut in half by the 'Rose' and sank at 03.17hrs; commanding officer and 20 crew lost, 70 survivors picked up by 'Rose'.
www.naval-history.net /WW1NavyUS.htm   (2755 words)

  
 United States Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
All together, the Continental Navy numbered some fifty ships over the course of the war, with approximately twenty warships active at its maximum strength.
The names of combat ships of the US Navy all start with USS, meaning 'United States Ship'.
Submarines are the other major strategic arm of the Navy as they can be used directly to control naval and shipping activity by other powers as well as serving as missile-launching platforms.
www.explainthat.info /un/united-states-navy.html   (1062 words)

  
 The United States Navy in World War II
Unlike the Japanese and German Navies, they would hold themselves to the Treaties and build ships that would be outclassed just a few years later by their Axis counterparts.
With the US carriers the only capital ships left in early 1942, they were the only units able to bring the fight to the enemy.
While the same ships comprised the Third Fleet under Halsey and the Fifth Fleet under Spruance, the command staffs could plan the next operation while the current one was still underway.
www.worldwar2database.com /html/navy.htm   (704 words)

  
 Preserved Naval Vessels in the US
This is a listing of all known preserved naval vessels in the United States.
This is a listing of museum ships that have been destroyed or removed from "preserved" status in the recent past, and of recent musuem efforts that have not succeeded.
If you know of other ships that should be on this list, or if you have additional information concerning any of the ships listed here, please drop me an email.
www.hazegray.org /navhist/preserve.htm   (1036 words)

  
 World Navies Today: US Navy Vessels Decommissioned Since 1980
Only the final name is listed, and all ships named for people have the person's first name abbreviated to one letter.
The Navy is retaining the ship for some specific purpose, such as foreign transfer, but not for potential return to US service.
Indicates the Navy wishes to/intends to dispose of the ship when such disposal is possible.
www.hazegray.org /worldnav/usa/decom.htm   (1119 words)

  
 Barnacle Bill's Ship Store - US Navy Apparel, List Your Military Reunion
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Barnacle Bill's Ship Store is a provider of US military apparel and other items decorated with your ships name and hull number.
We use the term US Navy shirts but the artwork is the name and hull number of your ship or unit and does not have to be US Navy.
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---------------------------------------------------------------- The Navy Public Affairs Library (NAVPALIB) A service of the Navy Office of Information, Washington DC Send feedback/questions to navpalib@opnav-emh.navy.mil ---------------------------------------------------------------- LIST OF UNITED STATES NAVY SHIPS BY TYPE - 31 Mar 94 This list includes ships of the United States Navy in service as of the indicated date.
Similar lists are produced in order by ship name, type/hull number, and homeport.
The asterisk (*) column in these lists shows "A" for active Navy ships, "M" for Military Sealift Command ships or "R" for Naval Reserve Force ships.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/USN/type.txt   (89 words)

  
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This was the system adapted by the Government of the United States of America, at the beginning of our involvement in WWII, as being the most expeditious for the Sealift capacity of the thousands of ships, and trained seamen contemplated to be built and manned.
A ship that I was on, the US SS William D. Pender, was on 14 Aug. 1944, in the Invasion of Southern France (Provence), and was next to the Command Ship, USS Catoctin, as part of a ring to protect against German Bombers.
Apart from the movements of Merchant Ships on the coastal trade, and those vessels direct from Britain or the United States, of course there were those which carried supplies or troops, bound for (or returning from), Darwin and Southeast Asia, New Guinea, or other theatres of war in the South West Pacific Area.
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 Index of the United States Navy's web site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Navy Personnel Command's Center for Career Development web site.
A list of all former U.S. Navy battleships
The Coast Guard is an agency of the Department of Transportation and reports to the Navy during times of war.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/.www/subject.html   (1445 words)

  
 Civil War Naval Forces Index
Ships of the Civil War [Illustrations, descriptions, alphabetically arranged]
Officers of Navy Yards, Shore Stations, and Vessels [As of 1 Jan 1865]
Ships of the American Civil War [List of names (only)]
www.tarleton.edu /~kjones/navy.html   (424 words)

  
 Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II
Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II Liberty ship was the name given to the EC2 type ship designed for "Emergency" construction by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II.
Two Liberty ships, the SS Jeremiah O'Brien in San Francisco and the SS John W. Brown in Baltimore, survive as "museum ships" open to the public for tours and occasional cruises.
The liberty ships; The history of the"emergency" type cargo ships constructed in the United States during World War II by L. Sawyer and W. Mitchell.
www.usmm.org /libertyships.html   (5961 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sky Ships: A History of the Airship in the United States Navy: Books: William F. Althoff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The text notes that the navy responsibilities included supporting civilian rigid airship development in the United States.
The navy supported domestic rigid airship programs by making the Lakehurst facilities available to Germany's commercial rigid airships as German and the United States companies were to jointly develop a commercial transatlantic airship service.
By March 1944 the navy had 119 blimps with air stations on the West Coast and with East Coast air stations extending to Recifi, Brazil.
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SACRAMENTO Caught in a political dustup over English-learning students and their own philosophical divide, members of the state Board of Education decided Wednesday to put their trust in the state's top political leaders to restore funding after the body was stripped of its entire operating budget.
South Korea is seeking to buy 48 sophisticated defensive missiles from the United States and install them in the country's Aegis-equipped KDX-III destroyers, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said on Monday (July 3).
Former state Representative Alan Schlesinger is being dogged by gambling rumors, and Bradley Beecher, former commanding officer of the state police’s casino licensing and operations unit, says he received a call from Schlesinger on Tuesday, July 11th seeking information on who was checking out his gambling habits.
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 US Navy Ships
This comprehensive guide to major classes of US Navy ships includes currently operational classes, new classes under development, and classes that have been retired since the end of the Cold War.
List of U.S. Navy Ships Alphabetical with Homeports
Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 [with an estimable names guide]
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