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	Naval History/USS Omaha CL-4
		Omaha (CL~4) was laid down 6 December 1918 by the Todd SB ~ DD Co., Tacoma, Wash., launched 14 December 1920; sponsored by Miss Louise Bushnell White, and commissioned 24 February 1923, Capt. David C. Hanrahan in command.
		As Omaha's crew dispatched a boarding party, the freighter's crew took to life boats and hoisted a signal which indicated that the ship was sinking.
		Omaha was present at the surrender of Giens on 23 August, and on the 25th she delivered a sustained bombardment on targets in the Toulon area.
	www.historycentral.com /Navy/cruiser/Omaha.html (466 words)

	USS Omaha
		The first Omaha was laid down in 1867 by the Philadelphia Navy Yard as Astoria, Launched 10 June 1869, she was renamed Omaha on 10 August 1869, and commissioned 12 September 1872, Captain John C. Febiger in command.
		Omaha's first assignment was with the South Atlantic Squadron, and she served alternately on South and North Atlantic Stations from 1873 to 1879.
		Omaha served on the Asiatic Station from 1885 to 1891.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/MISC/omaha.html (222 words)

	National Park Service: World War II Warships in the Pacific
		USS Hazard is a fleet minesweeper of the Admirable class.
		USS Hazard is permanently berthed at the Omaha Marina in East Omaha, Nebraska.She is maintained as a World War II museum and memorial.
		USS Hazard is in excellent condition and is one of the most intact warships surviving from World War II.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky1/hazard.htm (551 words)

	USS Omaha (SSN-692) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Omaha (SSN-692), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Omaha, Nebraska.
		The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut on 31 January 1971 and her keel was laid down on 27 January 1973.
		Omaha was placed in commission in reserve on 7 February 1995, decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 5 October 1995 and laid up at Bremerton in Washington.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Omaha_(SSN-692) (218 words)

	USN Ships--USS Omaha (CL-4)
		USS Omaha, first of a ten-ship class of 7050-ton light cruisers, was built at Tacoma, Washington.
		Decommissioned in November 1945, USS Omaha was scrapped at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1946.
		Odenwald was captured by Omaha and USS Somers (DD-381) on 6 November 1941.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-o/cl4.htm (822 words)

	Green Left - Features: Nuclear submarine visit endangers Melbourne
		The Omaha may or may not be carrying nuclear weapons -- a situation we cannot find out about because the United States Navy policy of neither confirming nor denying the nuclear-weapon status of its vessels.
		The USS Omaha is a Los Angeles class submarine propelled by a pressurised water cooled S6g GE reactor.
		The USS Omaha itself was involved in an accident that ripped a fishing net and nearly drowned a group of fishermen in Canada.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1992/82/1941 (1064 words)

	AMERICAN SAMOA HISTORICAL CALENDAR: SEPTEMBER
		USS Tutuila (ARG-4), formerly USS Arthur P. Gorman, and the second U.S. Navy vesselto bear the name, was launched at Baltimore, Maryland.
		USS Omaha, carrying the American members of the American Samoan Commission, arrived in Honolulu at 8:00 a.m.
		USS Tutuila (ARG-4; formerly USS Arthur P. Gorman), 80 per cent complete, was transferred from the U.S. Merchant Marine to the U.S. Navy for conversion to an internal combustion engine repair ship by the Maryland Drydock Company.
	www.asg-gov.net /026HISTORICALCAL_SEPTEMBER.htm (3257 words)

	USSSP - Baloo's Bugle
		Two other battleships, the USS Iowa and USS Wisconsin, are being retained by the United States Navy as Reserve Assets, for possible reactivation or future disposition.
		BB62 - USS New Jersey The USS New Jersey is the most decorated ship in the United States Navy.
		BB63 - USS Missouri The USS Missouri is perhaps the most famous United States battleship, serving as the site for the Japanese surrender ceremony at the close of World War II.
	www.usscouts.org /bbugle/bb0609/bb_packdenactivities.html (2416 words)

	The Cool Blue Blog: Omaha Beach and the USS Arkansas
		On 3 June the Arkansas left Bangor in her wake, sailed to join Rear Admiral Carleton F. Bryant's fire support force "O", which was parked nearby such famed battleships as the Nevada and Texas and the British Warspite, Rodney and Nelson.
		At 05:30 hrs on D-Day, the batterie was engaged by the French cruiser, FFS Georges Leygues and the American battleship USS Arkansas.The batterie opened fire on the destroyer Emmons stationed off Omaha beach.
		After some refitting, the USS Arkansas was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and participated in the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
	coolblue.typepad.com /the_cool_blue_blog/2006/06/omaha_beach_and.html (2048 words)

	USN Ships--USS Omaha (1872-1915)
		USS Omaha, 2394-ton Algoma class wooden screw sloop built at the Philadephia Navy Yard, was commissioned in September 1872.
		After being laid up during the first years of the 1880s, she was returned to active service and sailed for the Asiatic Station in 1885.
		Omaha spent some five years in the Far East, returning to the United States in 1891.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-o/omaha.htm (679 words)

	Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		During this tour, USS HENRY CLAY was named the Outstanding Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine in the Pacific Fleet and received both the COMSUBRON FIFTEEN Battle Efficiency and Engineering Excellence awards.
		USS OMAHA was awarded a Meritorious Unit Commendation and the COMSUBRON SEVEN Engineering Excellence Award.
		Following this deployment, USS CHICAGO was awarded a Meritorious Unit Commendation, the Pacific Fleet Golden Anchor Award and both the Submarine Squadron ELEVEN Battle Efficiency and Engineering Excellence Awards.
	www.pae.osd.mil /paepddirector.asp (383 words)

	USS Pennsylvania Wins Omaha Trophy, “Best of the Best”
		Gen. James Cartwright, Commander, USSTRATCOM, made the trip from Omaha, Neb., to the NBK Bangor waterfront to publicly acknowledge the efforts of all of the officers and Sailors of USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735).
		In that light, I’m proud to present this award to the crews of USS Pennsylvania.
		According to the citation presented by USSTRATCOM, the USS Pennsylvania distinguished herself in 2004 by demonstrating sustained excellence while supporting its primary mission of strategic deterrence over three patrol cycles, according to USSTRATCOM.
	www.csp.navy.mil /news/pressrel519.html (638 words)

	U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Utah (BB 31)
		During that period of alterations and repairs, the ship's "cage" mainmast was replaced by a lighter pole mast; she was fitted to burn oil instead of coal as fuel; and her armament was modified to reflect the increased concern over antiaircraft defense.
		She conducted her first target duty, for cruisers of the Fleet, on 25 July 1932, and later, on 2 August, conducted rehearsal runs for USS Nevada (BB-36), Utah being controlled from USS Hovey (DD-208) and USS Talbot (DD-114).
		Over the weeks that followed, she trained her embarked gunnery students in control and loading drills for the 5-inch batteries, firing runs on radio-controlled drone targets as well as.50- caliber and 1.1-inch firing on drones and balloons.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/battleships/utah/bb31-utah.html (2852 words)

	USS Duncan
		Receiving his commission as Ensign in June of 1938, Commander Conrad was assigned to the USS OMAHA, (CL 4), where he performed the general duties assigned to junior officers, as the OMAHA cruised the waters of the Mediterranean for a period of two years.
		When the USS HAKE (SS 256) was commissioned in the fall of 1942, Cdr Conrad found himself aboard as Engineering Officer, and during the HAKES wartime patrols in the European and Southwest Pacific Areas, he again filled the berth of Executive Officer.
		Serving as a seaman aboard the USS ARTIC, (AF 7), he was spared the terror of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, as the ARTIC cleared her assigend berth nineteen hours befoe another ship, the USS OGLALA, (AM 4) was sunk while moored at the berth previously occupied by the ARTIC.
	www.ussduncan.org /wespac54_page21.htm (1543 words)

	Welcome to USS Omaha - SSN 692 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 2000 the US Navy?s Submarine Force celebrates its centennial, commemorating the launch of SS 1 USS Holland, in 1900.
		The Confederate States Navy launched the CSS Hunley, a submersible hand-propelled craft with a crew of eight, all of whom perished with their only victim, the USS Housatonic.
		The submarine force today consists both of attack submarines, fulfilling the traditional submarine role, and ballistic missile submarines, which provide an undersea platform for ballistic missiles.
	www.military.com /HomePage/UnitPageFullText/1,13476,202207,00.html (112 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Cruisers
		6, 1941 — USS Somers (DD 381) and the cruiser USS Omaha (CL 4) captured the Odewald, a German blockade runner, in the central Atlantic.
		USS San Francisco was severely damaged and several other vessels, Japanese and American, more or less so.
		After their attempts to repel the landing were unsuccessful, the Germans fought an expert rear-guard action to the north towards the Straits of Messina.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/ships/cruisers/history/cghist4.html (1185 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Adm. Sheldon Kinney; Veteran of 3 Wars
		As a 16-year-old, he was a crew member on a sailing schooner to Hawaii, and he enlisted in the Navy in 1935, a year before he was to finish high school.
		As a seaman, Adm. Kinney served aboard the USS Omaha and then as a signalman aboard the USS New York, which represented the United States at the last gathering of the world's great dreadnaughts for the Coronation Review at Spithead by Great Britain's King George VI.
		As an ensign, Kinney served aboard the USS Sturtevant, which was assigned convoy duties in the North Atlantic, where its sister ship, the USS Reuben James, had been sunk.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A58008-2005Jan7?language=printer (714 words)

	American World War Two Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		American Battleship, USS Texas bombarding the Normandy Coast during D-Day in naval art print Gunline Omaha.
		USS Texas original naval painting by Randall Wilson available from Cranston Fine Arts.
		In support of the American landings at Utah and Omaha beaches, the USS Texas slugs it out with German heavy gun emplacements during the D-Day landings.
	www.cranstonfinearts.com /LISTING/PICTURES/W2.HTM (167 words)

	USS LST 494 Association Web Site
		My dad was 20 years old and fresh out of midshipman's school when he was assigned to the USS LST 494 as her gunnery officer.
		He served on the 494 in the European Theater and participated in the Invasion of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the Invasion of Southern France.
		Dad later served as the executive officer on the USS LST 375 in the Pacific Theater.
	lst494.freeyellow.com (256 words)

	Henrico County, Virginia -- USS Henrico (APA-45) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Landing to their right from another ship would be soldiers of the Virginia National Guard's 116th Regiment, 29th Infantry Division ("The Blue and Gray").
		HENRICO landed her troops in the first assault wave in the face of heavy seas and strong enemy fortifications.
		Troops of the US Army's 1st Infantry Division were carried by the USS HENRICO to Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 6, 1944.
	www.co.henrico.va.us /manager/apa45his.htm (2181 words)

	USS Indianapolis: oral history of CAPT Charles McVay
		The [heavy cruiser USS] Indianapolis [CA-35] had come to the Navy Yard, Mare Island [in San Francisco Bay] in early May 1945, to get heavy underwater damage repaired from a Kamikaze [Japanese suicide aircraft] hit that she took in [the Battle of] Okinawa on 30 March [1945].
		The old record, which is given in the World Almanac of 1944, was established by the [USS] Omaha [CL-4] in 1932 when she made a trip which took 75.4 hours.
		When one of them, the [high-speed transport] USS Ringness, the APD-100, picked me up and the group on my raft, the other one the [USS] Register, APD-92, went on north and we discovered there was another raft north of us which we had suspected, and picked up that small group.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq30-7.htm (9282 words)

	The Official USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		His first was aboard the USS Saratoga (CV 3) in the gunnery, communications and engineering departments as a junior officer until 1940.
		In January 1941, he served as senior aviator aboard the USS Milwaukee, and he eventually became commanding officer of Cruiser Scouting Squadron TWO, operating on the USS Omaha and the USS Savannah.
		Another year and a half of sea duty as executive officer of the USS Hornet, 1953-1954, was alternated with 2 1/2 years of shore duty as head of the Operational Intelligence Branch of the chief of naval operations, and as the naval aide to the secretary of the Navy.
	www.kittyhawk.navy.mil /history/anniv/firstco.html (586 words)

	DESA Message Board: Seeking DE Photographs
		My Grandfather was on the USS Blessman from Sept. 1943 until Apr. 1945 and I would love to have some pictures of that particular ship while he was abord.
		USS Williams (DE 372)Searching for pictures or any info reference the USS Williams (DE-372) aka "The Willie" which was hit by a Pacific typhoon in Sept. '44 or '45 while sailing between Okinawa and Guam.(Not the typhoon that struck Admiral William Halsey's fleet).
		USS Donnell- William E. Lyons Kentucky I am seeking any pictures you may have of this ship or sailors who were on this ship.
	www.desausa.org /discus/messages/185/185.html?1161460333 (3477 words)

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		Omaha when the Gneseniau and Wilhelmshaven attacked a convoy his ship was escorting a convoy to the Ruskies.
		Dan glared out at the battle in the air that was affecting his ship's functioning ability.
		But,then he remebered when his father was killed a small army war when Spain tried to take back Florida.Though USS.Arizona,Pennslyvania,California,Maryland and Idaho shorebombarded a enemy postition.USS.Farragut was engaged with two Finnish torpedo boats when they were cruising near their coast for only God and CinCLANT knew why.
	www.fortunecity.com /business/lauder/1644/ww2/longest06.html (385 words)

	Naval History/USS Raleigh CL-7
		The third Raleigh (CL-7) was laid down by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Mass., 16 August 1920; launched 25 October 1922, sponsored by Miss Jennie Proetor, and commissioned in the Boston Navy Yard 6 February 1924, Capt. William C. Watts in command.
		Together, the ships saved hundreds of Amerieans and other nationals from the dangers of the war in Spain.
		Omaha (CL-4) relieved Raleigh at Villefranehe 28 April 1938, and 2 days later Raleigh headed for Ilampton Roads for overhaul in the Norfolk Navy Yard, arriving 13 May.
	www.navyhistory.com /cruiser/Raliegh2.html (1319 words)

	BIRMINGHAM Crew News.
		Enlisting in the Navy in 1975, he served aboard the submarines USS Tautog (SSN 639), USS Barbel (SS 580), USS Birmingham (SSN 695) and USS Aspro (SSN 648) where he was Chief of the Boat.
		The Decommissioning ceremony for USS BIRMINGHAM was held on 22 December 1997 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.
		Officiated by CDR J.R. Burke, Commanding Officer, who gave some outstanding remarks concerning the exploits of BIRMINGHAM and her crew as well as congratulations to the shipyard team for their efforts.
	www.htc.net /~kutterer/bhamnews.htm (1366 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Destroyers
		Greer had held the German U-boat in sound contact 3 hours and 28 minutes; had evaded two torpedoes fired at her; and with her 19 depth charges had become the first American ship in World War II to attack the Germans.
		Nov. 6, 1941 - USS Somers (DD 381) and the cruiser USS Omaha (CL 4) captured the Odewald, a German blockade runner, in the central Atlantic.
		24, 1943 - USS Leary (DD 158) was sunk during an escort mission in the North Atlantic and became the third (and last) American destroyer to be sunk by a German U-boat.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/destroyers/ddhist2.html (671 words)

	Leviathan : 07-053
		I've had the opportunity over the past few weeks to conduct training with the Marine detachments from the USS Patton, and USS Omaha.
		One thing I didn't realise was that my "friend" from field training was the commander of the group on the Omaha.
		Captain Mike Kampel was the standard jackass hotshot at basic, and, to my surprise, they gave him a command.
	azoriusd.focus.lu /startrek/drfussleviathanb/L-Season7/07-053.html (421 words)

	C.W. Cole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After graduating, he was assigned as a midshipman to the Asiatic station and served on board USS Solace, then a transport ship and later a hospital ship.
		He was present throughout the Philippine Insurrection, serving on board both USS Baltimore and the Spanish gunboat Paraguay.
		From that vessel, he was ordered to USS Princeton, where he received his commission as ensign and in 1905, he because a lieutenant.
	www.quarterdeck.org /book/cencoms/cole.html (215 words)

	USS Cheyenne SSN 773 Improved Los Angeles Class Submarine Model
		The USS Cheyenne SSN 773, the United States Navy Improved Los Angeles Class Submarine is available as both 1/350th and 1/200th enhanced scale models.
		USS Cheyenne, like her sister ships the USS Columbia SSN 771 and the USS Greeneville SSN 772, incorporates Seawolf class technology and stealth into their construction.
		Los Angeles class are capable of conducting intelligence gathering operations, sea denial, delivering special forces units in areas where surprise and secrecy is essential and delivery precision strikes to land based targets hundreds of miles inland.
	www.thatravenmagic.com /cheyenne.html (478 words)

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