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	USS Long Island (CVE-1) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second USS Long Island (CVE-1) (originally AVG-1 and then ACV-1) was lead ship of the Long Island class and the first escort aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.
		Long Island departed San Diego on 8 July 1942 and arrived Pearl Harbor the 17th.
		Long Island was reclassified CVE-1 on 15 July 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Long_Island_(CVE-1) (687 words)

	DANFS: USS Long Island (CVE-1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The first Long Island retained her former name; the second was named for the body of water between the southern shore of Connecticut and the northern coast of Long Island, N.Y. (CVE-1: dp.
		The data gathered by Long Island greatly improved the combat readiness of later "baby flattops." Just after the Japanese attack, Long Island escorted a convoy to Newfoundland and qualified carrier pilots at Norfolk before departing for the west coast 10 May 1942.
		Long Island returned to the west coast 20 September 1942, as the new "baby flattops" took up the slack in the Pacific war zones.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/CVE/cve1.html (578 words)

	USN Ships--USS Long Island (AVG-1, later ACV-1 & CVE-1)
		Long Island was commissioned in early June 1941 and conducted trial operations in the Atlantic during the rest of that year.
		Long Island was reclassified ACV-1 (auxiliary aircraft carrier) in August 1942 and soon returned to the west coast to resume training carrier pilots.
		The capsized hull of USS Utah (AG-16), a victim of the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid, is astern of Long Island.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/cve1.htm (989 words)

	U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Tennessee (BB 44) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		USS Arizona (BB-39), moored directly astern of Tennessee, was undergoing a period of upkeep from the repair ship USS Vestal (AR- 4), berthed alongside her.
		The battle for that island was to be one of the most bitter of the Pacific war, and organized resistance was not eliminated until November, at a heavy cost in lives.
		The long fight for the Japanese citadel around the old island capital of Naha was to last much longer, and the island was not secured until 21 June.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/ships/battleships/tennessee/bb43-tenn.html (14218 words)

	USS Mayo DD422
		USS Mayo DD 422 was the second ship of the World War II era Benson-Gleaves class, which totalled some 96 destroyers.
		In December 1940, the squadron was reformed at Newport, Rhode Island and until the end of the European War was actively engaged in escort duties throughout the Atlantic and Mediterranean Theaters.
		It had been a long, hard fight from 1941 to 1945 for this ship and her crew.
	www.ussjpkennedyjr.org /mayo.html (364 words)

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		On 26 December 1944 the unit embarked on the transport carrier USS LONG ISLAND (CVE- 1) for the Admiralty Islands- Bunk rooms furnished officers and men were too crowded and poorly ventilated.
		the Squadron disembarked from the USS LONG ISLAND in Seadler Harbor.
		On 11 February the Squadron embarked on the USS BARNES (CVE-20) for transportation to Ulithi Harbor.
	home.comcast.net /~ivorjeffreys/pagex.htm (539 words)

	USN Ships--USS Long Island -- Aircraft on the Flight Deck
		USS Long Island (AVG-1, later ACV-1 and CVE-1).
		Parked on the flight deck of USS Long Island (AVG-1), 16 December 1941.
		This is Photo # 80-G-64755, which shows the wreckage of a plane that crashed while attempting to land on Long Island during Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) carrier qualifications, 12 November 1941.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/cve1-k.htm (574 words)

	December 07, 1941 - U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers
		USS Lexington was sunk by aerial bombs and torpedoes during the Battle of the Coral Sea, 8 May 42.
		USS Yorktown was at Norfolk, Virginia on 7 Dec 41.
		USS Yorktown was sunk by aerial bombs and torpedoes during the Battle of Midway, 7 Jun 42.
	www.bluejacket.com /ww2_12-07-41_carriers.html (2215 words)

	Long Island Shipwrecks
		Long Island is the home of the famous "Wreck Valley".
		Captain Child steered the vessel south toward the north shore of Long Island in an effort to beach her, but soon the steering became unresponsive.
		The U.S.S. TURNER is no longer a hazard to navigation since an oil tanker rubbed her bottom on the wreck.
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /shipwrecks.html (4534 words)

	U.S.S. Mississinewa, AO-59
		The role of the U.S.S. Mississinewa was to refuel ships, while underway, in the South Pacific during WWII.
		On November 20, 1944, the U.S.S. Mississinewa was struck by a Kaiten (Imperial Japanese Navy manned suicide torpedo with a 3,418 lb.
		The AO-59 was 553' long with a beam of 75'.
	www.ussmississinewa.com /home.html (568 words)

	The US Navy
		The engineering plans for this conversion were modified in November and included catapults to be fitted on both the forward and after ends of the "flying-off" deck.
		USS Lexington (CV 2) was at sea about 425 miles southeast of Midway toward which she was headed to deliver a Marine Scout Bombing Squadron.
		USS Enterprise (CV 6) was also at sea, about 200 miles west of Pearl Harbor, returning from Wake Island where she had delivered a Marine Fighter Squadron.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/navy_legacy.asp?id=1 (1311 words)

	USS Burton Island - AG 88
		The Burton Island was built and launched by the Western Pipe and Steel Co., at San Pedro, CA.
		The Burton Island has also explored east of Port Barrow, AK and well north into the Prince of Wales Strait and Melville Sound and becoming the first American vessel to cross McClure Strait from the west.
		During the 1962 cruise Burton Island carried oceanographic and underwater sound propagation experiments in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas.
	polarhistory.com /burtonisland.htm (813 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Carriers: Airpower at Sea - The Great Carrier War / Part 7
		The carriers USS Enterprise, USS Saratoga, and USS Wasp and the battleship USS North Carolina sailed to intercept the Japanese.
		The USS Enterprise was hit by three bombs, but the fires were extinguished and she resumed flight operations within an hour.
		On August 30, 1942, the USS Saratoga was torpedoed in the eastern approaches to the Coral Sea and had to be withdrawn to Pearl Harbor for repairs.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/carriers/cvchap2g.htm (713 words)

	USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		USS WHIDBEY ISLAND is the lead ship of the WHIDBEY ISLAND class of Dock Landing Ships and is the first ship in the Navy named for Whidbey Island, Washington - a thirty five mile long island in Puget Sound north of Seattle.
		USS WHIDBEY ISLAND is the first ship in a class designed specifically to interface with the Navy's newest amphibious assault landing craft, the Landing Craft Air Cushion, or LCAC.
		WHIDBEY ISLAND’s first major deployment was to the Mediterranean in January 1987 where the ship was involved in seven amphibious landing exercises, as well as carrying out assigned duties as Presidential support ship for the World Economic Summit held in Venice, Italy in May 1987.
	navysite.de /ships/lsd41.htm (1286 words)

	USS Strong (DD-467), Fletcher-class destroyer home page
		USS Strong, DD 467, was “a ship of uncommon capabilities...
		Pacific, she was also so highly regarded by her own shipmates that, the day after her sinking in 1943, they circulated a petition requesting the Navy to commission another USS Strong with the same officers and men.
		With inadequate warning to evade, she was hit by a “Long Lance” torpedo launched at least 15 minutes (and three radical course changes) earlier by one of three undetected enemy
	www.destroyerhistory.org /fletcherclass/ussstrong/index.html (483 words)

	The Great White Fleet Battleship Rhode Island
		The second Rhode Island was launched 17 May 1904 by Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.; sponsored by Mrs.
		Rhode Island underwent extensive shakedown and acceptance trials on the U.S. east coast between Hampton Roads and Boston before being assigned to Division 2, Squadron 1, Atlantic Fleet 1 January 1907.
		Arriving in Hampton Roads 8 December 1907, Rhode Island joined 15 other battleships, a torpedo boat squadron and transports, for the great fleet review which began the cruise of the Atlantic Fleet to the west coast and around the world.
	www.greatwhitefleet.info /USS_Rhode_Island.html (263 words)

	Bill Henrietta Photos
		I remained on Treasure Island and was appointed Master At Arms at a transfer barracks and remained on shore duty there at Treasure Island for a short time.
		I drove on back to Treasure Island and loaded all my loot, which included a little contraband such as a few Navy blankets and other Navy trivia, as well as some Japanese souvenir items like Jap Rifles, which of course were all illegal, the trunk was full.
		Construction on a brand new heavy cruiser the USS Los Angeles CA 135 had been completed, She had recently been commissioned, and I was assigned.
	www.uss-la-ca135.org /1940henrietta.htm (2200 words)

	STARFLEET RECORDS - USS MIRANDA PERSONELL FILES
		Ashley took a post as a shuttle pilot on the USS Acropolis (Cheyenne-Class), while Sven took a position as shuttle pilot and relieve FCO for the night shift on the USS Washington.
		He was the CO of the USS Saratoga-A (Akira-Class), and it was caught behind enemy lines when the Dominion retook the Chin'toka system.
		She is the CSO on the USS Long Island (Andromeda-Class).
	www.ussmiranda.com /bios/taylor.htm (1393 words)

	USS Oklahoma
		and the USS Oklahoma where 429 men lost their lives (second highest) and for which a memorial does not exist.
		This committee for a USS Oklahoma Memorial at Pearl Harbor intends to change the fact that there is no memorial to honor the 429 marines and sailors that in the immortal words of President Abraham Lincoln
		It was a book of interviews he had conducted over years of the crew of the USS Oklahoma, WW1 and WW2.
	www.ussoklahoma.com /Pearl_Memorial.html (852 words)

	Suicide Tactics: The Kamikaze During World War II - Air Group 4
		USS Mississinewa burning after being hit by a Kaiten Kamikaze torpedo in Ulithi Harbor, November 20, 1944.
		The USS Cabot, near the Hancock, had fought off a particularly viscous attack when one of the Kamikazes, already flaming from AA hits, crashed into the flight deck on the port side.
		I was on the flight deck of the Long Island visiting with G. "Mak" Makibbin, a fellow torpedo pilot.
	www.airgroup4.com /kamikaze.htm (1886 words)

	Letters/Stories
		The islands were not secured and the Japs were always shooting at the crewmen on watch in the planes.
		The long white sandy beach was an ideal place for recreation but the rest of the island was off limits because of the native population.
		I was a MML/3 on the USS Curtiss during WW II.
	www.ussnortonsound.com /A/html/letters.htm (11343 words)

	ZRS - What if Flying Carrier rigid airships had been operating in the Pacific Theater during WWII? - Rowan Partridge, ...
		December 7, 1941, the USS Long Island, the U.S. Navy's largest and newest rigid airship, an aircraft-carrying ZRS, enroute from her California base to Hawaii for fleet exercises.
		From her futuristic base in California to the blue waters of the Solomon Islands and to Tokyo itself, the ZRS battles the Japanese juggernaut.
		Rowan Partridge was born in Lae, New Guinea, in 1950.
	www.thebookden.com /zrs1.html (989 words)

	Airgroup 9 Fighting Squadron Nine USS ESSEX
		The pilots of Fighting Nine carrier-qualified with the F4F Wildcat in 1942, on USS Long Island, the small carrier that had carried the first Marine fliers to Guadalcanal.
		On its return from North Africa, VF-9 was slated to convert to the new F4Us in January 1943, but Vought hadn't produced enough to equip all the planned squadrons.
		They embarked on the Essex for a "training raid" against Marcus Island in late August, the first use of the Hellcat in combat.
	www.ussessexcv9.org /Bravepages/VF9.html (1495 words)

	USS Duncan
		At the center of the dispute was Argentina's claim that they settled the Falklands first, while the British claim the Islands were uninhabited when they arrived there in 1833.
		The letters show that the USS Lexington, under the command of Silas Duncan, visited the Falklands in December, 1831, to investigate complaints by American fishermen that a "band of pirates" was operating from the Islands.
		There is one other recollection and that is that at the time of the Falklands Island controversy of 1982, I was in the hospital recovering from a ruptured appendix.
	www.ussduncan.org /silas_page13.htm (829 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - August 20th-22nd, 1942
		Vandegrift's pleas for air support are finally answered when Marine Air Group 23 flies off the deck of the escort carrier USS Long Island.
		Nineteen F4F Wildcat fighters of VMF-223 and 12 SBD Dauntless dive bombers of VMSB-232 struggle off Long Island's deck in the afternoon, and approach the island later the day.
		The Japanese think Long Island, a rebuilt merchant ship, is actually the fleet carrier Wasp.
	www.usswashington.com /dl20au42.htm (911 words)

	Index Page
		I loved the sea..........I liked standing on the deck during a long voyage, the taste and feel of salty ocean winds whipping in from everywhere – the feel of the giant ship beneath me, its powerful engine driving against the sea.
		the long rolls when a necessary course prevents heading directly into the swells.
		Locked on land, he will grow wistful of his Navy days, when the seas was his life, and a new port of call was always just over the horizon.
	www.ussstlouis.com (554 words)

	Latinos & WWII
		Sailing in the South Pacific aboard the USS Long Island, Father Vega had thoughts of being killed by a torpedo.
		Vega served aboard the USS Long Island, a light aircraft carrier that would be used with distinction throughout the war for smaller operations or in squadrons with many others.
		Yet ever since his days aboard the USS Long Island, he had known what he really wanted to do, and in 1955, he accepted his life calling as a priest.
	utopia.utexas.edu /explore/latino/narratives/08vega_raymond.html (1112 words)

	CVE-1 Long Island
		A small enclosed hangar was fitted beneath the flight deck aft and a navigation bridge was located under the forward edge of the flight deck.
		In February 1944, Long Island (CVE-1) was redesignated an aircraft transport.
		USS Long Island and HMS Charger served as the testbeds for the large number of wartime escort carrier conversions which would turn the tide of the war in the Atlantic against the U-boat menace and keep a steady flow of new aircraft flowing into the Pacific Theater.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/cve-1.htm (612 words)

	The U.S.S. Arlington (AGMR-2) Home Page
		It is for all past crew members from 1966 re-commission to final decommissioning at San Diego in January of 1970.
		If you were on the USS Saipan, don't feel left out, this Home Page is also for you.
		This website was created and maintained by Bruce Schulze a crewmember until the first annual reunion of the USS Arlington crewmen's association in October 2002.
	www.ussarlington.com (189 words)

	Warbirds Over Long Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Warbirds Over Long Island is committed to the collection and preservation of classic World War II aircraft and the history surrounding them.
		Warbirds Over Long Island has also created this site as a small memoriam to the honor, integrity, bravery and valor of the great many men and women of the armed forces who fought for the greater good of the world.
		Following the ceremony, 65 roses, sprinkled with water taken from near the sunken USS Arizona, were flown in two Skytypers to New York Harbor escorted by the Warbirds’ P-40 Warhawk and P-51 Mustang.
	www.warbirdsoverlongisland.com (352 words)

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