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  USS Macon (CA-132) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Macon’s first fleet assignment was with the 8th Fleet, which she joined soon after her shakedown cruise.
By the end of 1959 Macon had conducted six midshipmen summer cruises and had spent the fall and winter season of almost every year as a guardian of freedom and liberty with the mighty 6th Fleet.
She patrolled in the eastern Mediterranean during the Suez Crisis of 1956; took part in the International Naval Review celebrating the 350th Anniversary of the foundation of Jamestown, Virginia, 12 June 1957; and participated in the NATO exercise operation “Strikeback”, conducted in the North Sea and Arctic Ocean in September 1957.
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 Macon
Macon (ZRS‑5), a rigid frame airship designated for scouting purposes, was built by the Goodyear‑Zeppelin Corp., of Akron, Ohio; christened 11 March 1933 by Mrs.
Macon, having completed 50 flights from her commissioning date, was stricken from the Navy list on 26 February 1935.
She patrolled in the eastern Mediterranean during the Suez crisis of 1956; took part in the International Naval Review celebrating the 350th Anniversary of the foundation of Jamestown, 12 June 1957; and participated in the NATO exercise operation “Strikeback”, conducted in the North Sea and Arctic Ocean in September 1957.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/m1/macon.htm   (708 words)

  
 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Macon
Macon, the seat of Bibb County, is the retail, medical, financial, educational, and cultural center of a still predominantly rural section of middle Georgia.
Macon's Camp Oglethorpe held prisoners of war who were officers, and many of its buildings became hospitals for wounded soldiers arriving by rail from battlefields to the north.
Macon leaders had sought a unit of the University System of Georgia for half a century before succeeding, via a bond issue, in opening Macon State College in 1968.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?path=/CitiesCounties/Cities&id=h-782   (3833 words)

  
 USS Macon CA-132
Macon (CA-132) was laid down 14 June 1943 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.; launched 15 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
Over the nexst 4 years the cruiser periodically received esperimental equipment in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, conducted tests of the new equipment while she served as an antiaircraft gunnery schoolship, and training naval reservists off the Atlantic and gulf coasts of the United States.
On the night of 19 to 20 January 1959, Macon, steaming from Cartagena to Marseilles, diverted from her course and sped to the aid of burning Italian merchant ship Maria Amata.
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Raymond Brockus 818-358-1766 1309 Standish Pl Arcadia, CA 91006-4568 USS Brownson DD-868 Mr.
Wayne McClure (CA) 707-226-8776 USS Cassin DD-372 Mr.
Woodrow Wert 707-777-2966 334 Wambold Ln Petaluma, CA 94952-9663 USS Cavaller APA-37 Mr.
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 the nuclear information project: us nuclear port visit to denmark, chronology
The visit of the USS Macon in 1957 was the first time naval nuclear weapons entered a Danish port.
The warship was the USS Macon (CA-132), a cruiser equipped with the Regulus nuclear cruise missile.
The USS Macon signaled the coming on a new era of widespread deployment of nuclear weapons on warships.
www.nukestrat.com /dk/pvchron.htm   (1245 words)

  
 Dreadnought
This introduced the distinction between a "heavy cruiser" (CA), with 8 in guns, and a "light cruiser" (CL), with 6 inch guns.
1 CA, 1 CL, 12 DD This class, all commissioned between January and December 1943, particpated in all the actions in the last years of World War II.
When, after a fashion, it was revived, as the "heavy cruiser" under the regime of the Treaty Cruisers, with CA hull numbers, these were considered cruisers proper and were given city names like other cruisers.
www.friesian.com /dreadnot.htm   (8601 words)

  
 crew_1949_1951
Transferred to USS Rochester (CA 124) in 1/50 and went to Korea and was awarded three battle stars (Pusan,Inchon,and Hungnam) still in the main battery.
Penryn, Ca Larry was a member of the original crew upon her commissioning.
San Diego CA I am not sure if I would be considered a plank owner or not as I came aboard ship when the NN was on it's shake down at Gitmo.
www.uss-newport-news.com /crew/crew49-51.htm   (3351 words)

  
 GeoScience Books - Current Catalog
TERTIARY STRATIGRAPHY OF THE BLAIRSDEN QUAD., PLUMAS CO., CALIF. Univ CA Pubs in Geol Sci Vol 34 #3, 1959.
Cloth, 132 pp, 5 tbls, 8 plts incl foldouts.
Bulletin CA Dept Geol Sci Vol 14 #13, 1923.
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After transiting the Philippine and Indonesian archipelagoes and crossing the Indian Ocean, she rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived off the St. Peter and Paul Rocks on 10 April--60 days and 21 hours after departing the mid-ocean landmark.
Only once did her sail break the surface of the sea, when she transferred a sick sailor to heavy cruiser MACON (CA-132) off Montevideo, Uruguay, on 5 March.
She arrived back at Groton on 10 May, having completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the earth.
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I went aboard the U.S.S. Providence in Oct of 1966 and stayed on her untill I was discharged from the Navy in Feb. 1970.
Went to San Diago and was assigned T.A.D. to the USS Cleveland (LPD-7) from Aug 68 to Oct 68.
Was assigned to ACU1 LCU Det Alpha, went to Naval Reserve Readiness Center Kansas City Missouri, assigned to the USS Kitty Hawk(CV-63), sent to Naval Medical Center Balboa San Diego, California where i was honorably discharged with medical seperation.
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 Fred's Place|www.fredsplace.org
I would like to leave a tribute to my Dad, Jerold W. Deichsel, 2/4/33 to 4/4/01.The only picture I have of my Dad in his uniform is his wedding picture, taken on 11-27-1954.He was in the Navy from 7-22-1950 to 1-28-1955.He served on the USS Macon CA-132.
I don't know how many of his Navy Buddies are still around.
He was a Seaman 3rd Class on the USS Macon 132-CA.
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 REGULUS GUIDED CRUISE MISSILE
USS Los Angeles (CA 135), USS Helena (CA 75), USS Macon (CA 132) and USS Toledo (CA 133) each carried three Regulus I missiles on operational patrols in the Western Pacific.
Los Angeles deployed with Regulus from 1955 to 1961, Helena from 1956 to 1960, Toledo from 1956 to 1959 and Macon from 1956 to 1958.
Ten aircraft carriers were configured to carry and launch Regulus I missiles.
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 Francis J. Turmo Home Page
I chose the USS Macon CA-132, a heavy cruiser which operated on the East coast.
There I spend a couple of days in the Hotel Patria, until the USS Macon arrived.
Finally, on 4 December 1956, I boarded the ship which was to be my home for next two years.
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 NLHS Guestbook - 2005
As a boy living in Williamstown in th '30s, I can still vividly see th Akron or Macon pokin it's nose through th low clouds as I watched from th yard....
I served aboard Navy Lakehurst in ZW-1 in the mid-fifties.
In May 1955 I participated in the ferrying of K-40 and another airship from Lakehurst to Santa Ana, CA.
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 Regulus America's First Sea-borne Nuclear Deterrent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After work-ups off the coast of California, Barbero transited the Panama Canal in April 1956 and joined the Atlantic Fleet.
By this time, Regulus was also at sea on four heavy cruisers: In addition to Los Angeles, already mentioned, Helena (CA-75), Toledo (CA-133), and Macon (CA-132) were all fitted with fantail launching rails and commenced regular operational deployments, the first three in the Pacific, and Macon in the Atlantic.
Even ten aircraft carriers were equipped to launch the missile, depending on an escorting aircraft to provide mid-course guidance, but although at least one Pacific deployment occurred, the resulting onboard mix of missiles and manned aircraft was never popular with the aviation community.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_11/regulus.html   (2358 words)

  
 Photo # NH 99296 picture data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Reprovisions USS Macon (CA-132), during operations off the U.S. East Coast, circa late April or early May 1946.
Photograph was released by Macon's Commanding Officer on 8 May 1946.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/images/h99000/h99296c.htm   (95 words)

  
 USS Worcester CL 144 - US Navy - Korean War Project
Keywords: uss macon ca132, mediterranean cruiser, 7 september- 8 december 1954
Approximately 200 tons of her armor plate was sent to the Fermi National Accelerator Lab at Batavia, IL west of Chicago, the armor being used for absorption shielding in the particle accelerator.
USS ROANOKE (CL-145) also supplied 200 tons of armor plate, along with the Heavy Cruisers MACON (CA-132), FALL RIVER (CA-131) and BALTIMORE (CA-68) with 300 tons of armor plate each.
www.koreanwar.org /html/units/navy/uss_worcester.htm   (3028 words)

  
 SCTR 132 Bibliography - Modern Apocalypticism (Murphy, SCU)
Vincent L. Wimbush; Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics 16; Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999) 123-55.
Report to the Deputy Attorney General on the Events at Waco, Texas, February 28 to April 19, 1993.
Vincent L. Wimbush; Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999) 157-73.
www-relg-studies.scu.edu /facstaff/murphy/courses/sctr132/bibliog-modern.htm   (4943 words)

  
 Ward's Dealer Business: WARD'S Dealer 500 - Directory - Illustration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
City of Industry, CA 163 AutoNation Libertyville, IL 164 Mark A. Eddins Dallas, TX 165 AutoNation Baltimore, MD 166 Alan & Robert Potamkin Springfield, PA 167 Lloyd G. Chavez Englewood, CO 168 AutoNation Tampa, FL 169 Jim Crowley Vista, CA 170 AutoNation, Inc. Marietta, GA 171 Graham Tash Tacoma, WA 172 Ernesto Ancira Jr.
City of Industry, CA 65,217,519 329 Vernon G. Buchanan Sarasota, FL 53,169,608 330 William R. Shepherd Jr.
San Diego, CA 39,078,097 420 James L. Ferman, Jr.
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 Please Help!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
We are desperately looking for people to come with some of us to the next planned demonstration billed as "Stop the US War Drive--Free Palestine--National Day of Protest" set for Sat 9/28 in S.F & the "National March to Stop the War Against Iraq" planned for S.F.& D.C. on Sat 10/26.
General Trapnell was with the 505th Parachute Regiment, 82nd Airborne from 1947-1950 as far as I know.
I have some pictures that were taken by the rescue group and I think one of them is of John.
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 Cruisers
Several of the original Oregon City Class of heavy cruisers (CA designation) were re-classified as guided missile cruisers (CG designation).
One in particular, the USS Northampton, was begun as a CA, cancelled by the Navy in 1945, then reordered as a tactical command ship (CLC designation, as shown here).
Shown here is the USS Macon (CA-132), as she was configured in at the end of World War II.
www.usmilitaryart.com /cruisers.htm   (2447 words)

  
 Remembrance Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Paul enlisted in 1965 served with the 14th ASA in Phu Bai in 1966-67.
Born June 29, 1919 in Cheyenne Wyoming and raised in the Jewish farming community of Iowa Center WY until the age of 12 when his family moved to the San Fernando Valley, CA.
I think of you often and wish you could have been here to see the progress of your family and this world we live in.
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 The Captain's and XO's
Following two years aboard minesweepers in various engineering billets and finally as Executive Officer, he reported to the USS WISCONSIN (BB-64) where he served on the staff of Commander Battleship Division TWO.
The USS DALY (DD-519) and the USS MACON (CA-132) were his next assignments.
Upon completing a tour of shore duty as an instructor at the U.S. Naval School, Communications in Newport, R.I., LCDR NASON was ordered to the USS BIGELOW (DD-942) as Operations Officer in which capacity he served until reporting on board the SUMNER as Executive Officer in February 1962.
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 The PooP Deck - The Salty's Log Book - 2000 - January and February   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
I was a reservist attached to a submarine reserve unit in Long Beach, CA from 2/70 to 2/71.
This would be along the lines set in my recently published "Green Hell: The Battle For Guadalcanal." (not a command study) The valiant efforts of the S-boats needs more attention, such as that given in Bobette Gugliotta's "Pigboat 39"-a truly human and personalized account.
Would love to hear from and correspond with others who were there and who would like to contribute their thoughts and memories.
www.thesaltysailor.com /logview5.htm   (9882 words)

  
 AMA Pro Racing - Results - Road Race
Sponsors 1 7 Jason Pridmore, Ventura, CA SUZ 15 36* HyperCycle/Team Suzuki Sport/Dunlop/Two Brothers 2 24 Mark Miller, Long Beach, CA SUZ 15 32 HyperCycle/Team Suzuki Sport/Dunlop/Two Brothers 3 65 Christopher Rankin, Austin, TX SUZ 15 30 Grand Prix Motorsports/Bel-Ray/Arai/EBC/Composites Unl.
27 26 Mike Klein, Encino, CA HON 15 4 Avon Tyres/Crago Racing/Ferodo Brakes/RK Chain 28 100 Scott Ackerman, Omaha, NE SUZ 15 3 Clifford Cycles/Star City Motor Sports/Motorcycle Stuff 29 31 Paul Vogel, Carmichael, CA SUZ 15 2 Swift Auto World/Chandelle Mtrsprts./Rancho MC Dismt.
6 16 Cory Call, Sacramento, CA SUZ 15 25 Roseville Cycle/RPM/Off Beat Prod./WER/Arai/Clay Carrier 7 49 John Jacobi, Noblesville, IN SUZ 15 24 Bells Suzuki/Speedstill/Metzeler/Sharkskinz/Penske Rac.
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 Reunion Hall - Sailors from the 50s
Seeking someone who would have known Peter Apeland ca 1928- 1939.
He was in the coast gaurd during this time.
For many years he made his home in Orange County, CA with his wife Beverly Jane [Arrance] Norton.
www.fredsplace.org /reunion/sg/0180.shtml   (6152 words)

  
 Sport Access : Sports directory
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Despite the threat from Talladega, Paris is confident it can retain its title as fashion capital of the world.
Del Mar Horse Racing.nctimes sports 56 DC Sports: Entry Page 2205 126th Street, Unit A. Hawthorne, CA 90250.
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 [No title]
N.D. Background notes on loss of dirigible `Macon'.
N.D. Descriptions of U.S. Navy dirigibles `Macon' and `Akron'.
Included with original script are revisions, also M., on blue paper with dates 2/8/44 (ca.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/spc/xml/m0192.xml   (6069 words)

  
 [No title]
Clovis, CA: Quill Driver Books/Word Dancer Press, Inc., 2002.
THE ABC OF ARMAGEDDON: Bertrand Russell on Science, Religion, and the Next War, 1919-1938 by Peter H. Denton.
Mill Valley, CA: Center for the Story of the Universe, 1996.
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 U.S.S. Macon Veteran's Association
This website is published by and for former crew members of the U.S.S. Macon (CA-132), and is authorized for distribution by the non-profit organization, U.S.S. Macon Veteran's Association.
The January edition of The Macon Time has been mailed to subscribing members.
Thank you for visiting our site, updated July 9, 2005.
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