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87 unusual facts about United States Navy


13th Air Expeditionary Group

: An air echelon was attached to the: Caribbean Sea Frontier, United States Navy, 30 August-9 October 1942 and 16 October-15 November 1942

14th Antisubmarine Squadron

In September 1943 the anti-submarine mission was taken over by United States Navy patrol aircraft and the squadron moved to Texas where it was reassigned to Second Air Force, which disbanded it and used its personnel as cadres for new heavy bomber units.

1904 Republican National Convention

The 1904 Republican platform favored the protective tariff, increased foreign trade, the gold standard, expansion of the Merchant Marine and strengthening of the United States Navy; it also praised Roosevelt's foreign and domestic policies.

831st Bombardment Squadron

Flew antisubmarine patrols until August 1943 when the antisubmarine mission was taken over by the United States Navy.

839th Bombardment Squadron

By then, the United States Navy had taken over responsibility for antisubmarine operations and the unit was reduced to an administrative organization.

859th Bombardment Squadron

Operated until 18 September 1943 when the antisubmarine mission was taken over by the United States Navy.

Airship Ventures

was a private company that offered sight-seeing rides (which the company called "flightseeing") in a 12-passenger Zeppelin NT out of a World War II United States Navy hangar at Moffett Federal Airfield near Mountain View, California.

Allison Engine Company

The Army was once again uninterested, but instead suggested Allison try selling it to the United States Navy.

American military technology during World War II

The motives of President Harry Truman, the United States Army Air Force (USAAF), and the United States Navy came under suspicion, and the USAAF and Navy released statements that it was necessary in order to make Japan surrender.

Association of Naval Services Officers

The Association of Naval Services Officers (ANSO) is an organization dedicated to expanding the presence of Hispanic and Latin Americans in the Sea Services of the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Coast Guard, and the United States Merchant Marine.

Battle Fleet

The United States Battle Fleet or Battle Force was part of the organization of the United States Navy from 1922 to 1941.

Battle of Taegu

The United States, a permanent member of the Security Council, immediately deployed armed forces (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force units) to southeastern South Korea because of their immediate availability from their bases in Japan and Okinawa, where the military occupation of Japan was still in effect (through 1952).

Bennie Warren

Warren served in the United States Navy during World War II from January 1943 to October 1945, missing playing time in the process.

Bob Elson

In 1942, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served four years in World War II—a stint which earned him the nickname "The Ol' Commander." But none other than President and Commander-in-Chief Franklin D. Roosevelt himself had him called home to announce the 1943 World Series.

Bus Riley's Back in Town

The intense drama depicts a man (James Dean look-alike Parks) returning home from three years in the Navy only to find that his girlfriend (Ann-Margret) has married an older man.

Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company

The planes had originally been designed as scout bombers for the U.S. Navy.

Charles H. Matchett

He worked at various times in his earlier years as a United States Navy sailor, a clerk, carpenter, and beer bottler.

Chevene Bowers King

Following graduation from a segregated high school in Albany, he served in the United States Navy.

Combined Fleet

As the war situation deteriorated for the Japanese and the territories controlled by the "Area Fleets" fell one after another to the United States Navy, the Imperial General Headquarters and the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff acted to force the American fleet into a "decisive battle" in the Philippines per the kantai kessen philosophy.

Compton Martin

On 14 March 1944, during World War II a United States Navy Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber crashed near the village with the loss of five lives.

Congregation Beth Israel-Judea

Born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1930, Morris's first rabbinic position had been two years as a chaplain with the United States Navy in Japan in 1956.

Continental Circus

The arcade version of this game comes in both upright or sit-down models, either of which may feature shutter-type 3-D glasses hanging above the player's head, used by Taito under license by the United States Navy, who held the patent on that technology.

Dale Starkey

Serving in the U.S. Naval Amphibious forces during WWII he participated in the Invasion of Omaha Beach, Normandy France, on his 20th birthday, June 6, 1944.

David Eagles

He spent fifteen months learning to fly with the United States Navy, where he flew the Harvard (US Navy SNJ), the Grumman F9F Panther and the North American T-28 Trojan at Naval Air Stations Pensacola FLA and Kingsville TEXAS.

Diabolito

One of the more violent of the era, he actively engaged the United States Navy and was one of the main fugitives pursued during later American naval expeditions in the Caribbean during the 1820s.

Doris Piserchia

She served in the United States Navy from 1950 to 1954 and after that received her Master's in educational psychology.

Elizabeth Chittick

Chittick was the first woman civilian administrator of the U.S. Naval Air Stations in Seattle, Washington and Banana River, Florida, the first woman to be a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange, and the first female revenue collections officer with the Internal Revenue Service.

Ensign O'Toole and Me

When they reconnect our narrator has retired from the USN and become a journalist.

Eric Crafton

He served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy for four-and-a-half years and is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War.

Fastest propeller-driven aircraft

During the 1950s two unorthodox United States Navy fighter prototypes married turboprop engines with a "tailsitting design", the Convair XFY "Pogo" and the Lockheed XFV.

Flag and seal of New Hampshire

The Raleigh was built in Portsmouth in 1776, as one of the first 13 warships sponsored by the Continental Congress for a new American navy.

Fleetwings

Kaiser-Fleetwings' entered its XBTK-1 in a United States Navy attack aircraft competition, with five aircraft being flown.

Forgacs Group

Forgacs conducts refit and maintenance work for the Royal Australian Navy, including the repair and extensive conversion of the Kanimbla-class LPAs following their purchase from the United States Navy.

Fremantle War Memorial

A 21-inch-diameter mounted torpedo dedicated to the memory of United States Navy submariners who died at sea during the Second World War was unveiled by Rear Admiral Herman J. Kossler on 8 September 1967, jointly financed by the City of Fremantle and the United States Submarine Veterans Association.

Gaylon Smith

After taking a job as a personnel director and playing on a regional basketball and baseball teams based in the Cleveland area, Smith joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 during World War II.

General-purpose bomb

Since the Vietnam War, United States Navy and United States Marine Corps GP bombs are distinguished by a thick ablative fire-retardant coating, which is designed to delay any potential accidental explosion in the event of a shipboard fire.

Gerard C. Smith

During World War II he served as a procurement officer for the Department of the Navy in Washington, D.C. In 1950 he returned to government service as a special assistant to Thomas E. Murray, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission.

GOC Army Headquarters

The meaning of the reform was to subordinate the ground forces to one ground commander, who is a part of the Joint Staff, by the example of the Israeli Air Force and Navy; and unlike the United States Armed Forces, where operational Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps units and other support units are subordinated to Unified Combatant Commands.

Hal G. Rainey

Rainey obtained a bachelor's in English and psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, after which he served as an officer in the United States Navy.

Hans Tanzler

Tanzler decided to go to Gainesville, but with World War II still ongoing, he was required to serve 18 months in the United States Navy.

Henry R. Towne

During 1864-1866, Towne was placed in charge of erecting engines in monitors for the United States Navy.

Jaycee Park

The Pirates were a special business rate to stay at the Shamrock Village, a former Navy training base that had been converted at a cost of $1.5 million into 150 efficiency apartments and 44 motel rooms.

John A. Nerud

He served with the United States Navy during the war, then returned to racing as an assistant to Frank J. Kearns at Woolford Farm.

John Bradford Fisher

In 1982, Fisher enlisted in for the United States Navy; in 1983, he became one of the youngest Chiefs of Department of Plastic Surgery at the National Naval Medical Center, and was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Jonathan Gaffney

He served as Medical Service Corps Officer in the United States Navy from 1983-2005 and retired with the rank of Commander.

José Sisto

He began arming native guards and commandeering ammunition, but was briefly overthrown by Venancio Roberto and other pro-American elements on December 31, 1898, but was officially put into power by officers of the United States Navy only two days later after they decided he held a legitimate claim to the position.

Kamishak Bay

The proposed United States Navy seaplane tender USS Kamishak (AVP-44) was named for Kamishak Bay, but the contract for the ship's construction was cancelled in 1943 before construction began.

Keith Farnham

Currently a small business owner, Farnham served in the United States Navy from 1964 through 1968.

Luther Lochman von Wedekind

Luther Lochman von Wedekind (1864 - November 24, 1935) was medical director for the United States Navy.

Mary Lou Beschorner

He was very proud of her son, who graduated from the USNA and went on to be a commander in the United States Navy.

Metlakatla, Alaska

Members of the Active and Reserve Components of the Army, Navy, United States Air Force, and the Marines deployed to the island on 2 to 3 week rotations to build the road.

Monito gecko

It is believed that its scarcity may be due to the introduction of rats to Monito and from habitat destruction caused by United States Navy bombing practices after World War II.

National Lacrosse League Goaltender of the Year Award

In the 2008 season, the award was sponsored by the US Navy and was known as the "US Navy Goaltender of the Year award".

National Nuclear Security Administration

It is also responsible for many nuclear nonproliferation, counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, and radiological emergency response efforts for the United States, along with the naval reactors for the United States Navy.

Northeast Area Fleet

As United States Navy forces had driven the Japanese out of the Aleutian Islands in late 1943 to early 1944, an organizational structure was required to coordinate Japan’s northern defenses against the possibility that the United States would extend operations from the Aleutians into the Chishima Islands, Karafuto and to northern Japan itself.

Nueva trova

In both Cuba and Puerto Rico, the politicized lyrics of nueva trova were very often critical of the United States; Puerto Rican singers were especially critical of Vieques' continued use as a United States Navy training ground.

Oleta River State Park

It was used by U.S. troops (who called it Big Snake Creek) in 1841 during the Second Seminole War, and further explored in 1881 by Naval Captain William Hawkins Fulford, whose ventured inland to what is now the city of North Miami Beach.

Operation Nimbus Moon

It was conducted by the United States Army, Egyptian Army, and United States Navy following the Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Israel in 1973.(Bryson, Tars, Turks, and Tankers, 1980, 186)

Powhatan-class fleet ocean tug

The Powhatan class of fleet ocean tugs consists of seven ships built for the United States Navy and now operated by the Military Sealift Command by primarily civilian crews with the USNS designation.

Red Faber

After spending most of 1918 in the Navy due to World War I, he returned in 1919 only to develop arm trouble, finishing with a 3.83 ERA - the only time in his first nine seasons he posted a mark over 3.00.

Richard Fuisz

Later Fuisz was commissioned as a Lt. Commander in the United States Navy.

Robert N. Gorman

In the fall of 1918, Gorman entered the Harvard Law School, but had studies interrupted by enlistment in the United States Navy in December, 1918.

Rufus Osgood Mason

During The American Civil War, (1861–1864) he became an Assistant Surgeon for The United States Navy.

Sam Rice

In 1913 he joined the United States Navy and served on the USS New Hampshire, a 16,000-ton battleship that was large enough to field a baseball team.

Sea Ferret

The Sea Ferret was a submarine-launched aerial reconnaissance drone under development by the United States Navy, designed to

Seabee combat warfare specialist insignia

The Seabee combat warfare specialist insignia is a warfare qualification of the United States Navy.

Section patrol

A Section Patrol craft was a civilian vessel registered by the United States Navy for potential service during and shortly after World War I.

Shelikof Strait

The United States Navy seaplane tender USS Shelikof, in commission from 1944 to 1947 and from 1952 to 1954, was named for Shelikof Strait.

Sick of Life

The song is best known for its use in the U.S. Navy's "Accelerate Your Life" commercials, following a similar use of the album's title track.

Slick Airways

Additionally, Slick Airways operated on so called Quicktrans domestic routes on behalf of the United States Navy.

SQL

In the late 1970s, Relational Software, Inc. (now Oracle Corporation) saw the potential of the concepts described by Codd, Chamberlin, and Boyce and developed their own SQL-based RDBMS with the aspirations of selling it to the U.S. Navy, Central Intelligence Agency, and other U.S. government agencies.

Susanne Osthoff

Another allegation is that Germany traded the terrorist Mohammed Ali Hamadi, who was convicted of the murder of US Navy sailor Robert Stethem during the highjacking of TWA Flight 847, for Susanne Osthoff.

Synthetic fuels in the United States

The reserves were seen as a possible emergency source of fuel for the military, particularly the Navy.

The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball's Golden Age

Feller received numerous campaign ribbons and battle stars for his service in the Navy; Lohrke gained fame as a man who cheated death so many times, both during and after the war, he was given the nickname “Lucky” Lohrke.

Thomas Scott Baldwin

In 1914 he returned to dirigible design and development, and built the U.S. Navy's first successful dirigible, the DN-I.

Todd A. Batchelor

A veteran of the United States Navy, Batchelor earned his undergraduate degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 1996.

United States Fleet

Since September 1947, the CNO has held the additional position of Chief of Staff of the United States Navy, and he is the highest-ranking naval officer except when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is also a U.S. Navy officer.

The United States Fleet was an organization in the United States Navy from 1922 until after World War II.

United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense

The subcommittee oversees overall funding for the Department of Defense, including the Army, Navy, Air Force.

United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower

The Seapower Subcommittee has jurisdiction over all U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, including non-tactical air programs, and the Naval Reserve forces.

United States Twelfth Fleet

The Twelfth Fleet was a unit of the United States Navy and was operational from October 1st, 1943.

USS Pinta

USS Pinta was an iron-hulled screw tug of the United States Navy, launched on October 29, 1864, by Reaney, Son & Archbold, Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in October 1865, and commissioned there, Lt. Comdr.

USS Tallapoosa

Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Tallapoosa for the Tallapoosa River.

W.T. Sampson Elementary/High School

The school, the oldest continually-operating Department of Defense school opened in 1931, operated by the United States Navy.

Washington State Route 530

In Trafton, which is located in Arlington Heights, SR 530 passes a residential area and a road that leads to the Jim Creek Naval Radio Station, a United States Navy facility.

William H. Lebeau

As a congregational rabbi, he served three communities over a period of 24 years, beginning with two years as a chaplain in the United States Navy and Marine Corps.

WKC Stahl- und Metallwarenfabrik

The company's first orders at this time came from the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.


1939 California tropical storm

Out at sea, the Coast Guard and Navy conducted rescue operations, saving dozens of people.

1946 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash

The 1946 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash occurred on December 30, 1946 on Thurston Island, Antarctica when a United States Navy PBM Mariner crashed during a blizzard.

Aircraft Ship Integrated Secure and Traverse

ASIST completed sea trials by July 31, 1992 and production units are in operation with the Chilean Navy, Republic of Singapore Navy, Turkish Navy and United States Navy.

Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II

During the last weeks of World War II, warships of the United States Navy, Britain's Royal Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Navy bombarded several cities and industrial facilities in Japan.

Archerfish

Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named USS Archerfish, the first one holding the distinction of sinking the largest ship ever destroyed by a submarine, the 68,059-ton Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, on November 29, 1944.

Blood plasma

Following the "Plasma for Britain" invention, Dr. Drew was named director of the Red Cross blood bank and assistant director of the National Research Council, in charge of blood collection for the United States Army and Navy.

Brian Bowman

Brian Bowman is a euphonium professor, performer and recording artist notable for having sat lead euphonium in the premier bands of both the United States Navy and the United States Air Force as well as having performed the first euphonium recital at Carnegie Hall.

Cole White

Prior to White joining the Army, the only member of his family with any military experience is his grandfather on his mother's side, Michael Carroll, who was in the Navy during World War II.

Diane Renay

The song told the story of a girl, lonely for her steady boyfriend away from home in the U.S. Navy and anxious to see him again.

Erastus Corning

The United States Navy contracted with Corning's iron works to manufacture parts and materials for the USS Monitor, the Navy's first ironclad warship.

Farragut State Park

The park adjoins the deep-water on Lake Pend Oreille, where the Navy maintains a submarine research center at Bayview, the Acoustic Research Detachment.

Globe KD2G Firefly

The Globe KD2G Firefly was a pulsejet-powered American target drone, built by the Globe Aircraft Corporation for operation by the United States Navy in the late 1940s, seeing operational use into the mid-1950s.

Grog

Honoring the 18th century British Army regimental mess and grog's historical significance in the military, the United States Navy, United States Air Force, and United States Army carry on a tradition at its formal dining in ceremonies whereby those in attendance who are observed to violate formal etiquette are "punished" by being sent to "the grog" and publicly drink from it in front of the attendees.

Harvey Chrouser

After a few years of starting at Wheaton, he took a break to serve in the United States Navy as a Lieutenant Commander under George Halas.

John Satterwhite

Satterwhite is presently a consultant to law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Navy Crises Response teams.

John Yuen

Rear Admiral Jonathan A. Yuen is an American naval officer and commander of Naval Supply Global Logistics Support.

Johnny Vander Meer

On March 3, 1944, Vander Meer joined the United States Navy and was stationed at Sampson Naval Training Station in New York where he would play for the Navy baseball team.

Leo Pinsky

Pinsky later served on the South Pacific island of Guam where he played baseball and famously hit two grand slams in a 8-7 win over the Navy.

Michael H. Jordan

In 1960, he joined the United States Navy as a lieutenant and was selected by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover to serve on his staff, which was developing America’s nuclear submarine force.

Nathan Bridger

Bridger's backstory claims that he had served in the U.S. Navy for over thirty years; during which time he served with William Noyce and Manilow Crocker.

Naval mobile construction battalion

There are 9 active-duty naval mobile construction battalions (NMCBs) — known as C.B.'s ("Seabees") — in the United States Navy, split between the east and west coasts.

Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach

She supported the campaigns to end submarine operations of the Royal Navy and United States Navy in the Firth of Clyde, to hold another inquiry into the Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre in 1994, and the successful bid for the residents of Gigha to buy their own island.

Regional Security Officer

Under the RSO's direct supervision are the following groups: U.S. Marine Security Guards, Assistant RSOs, local guards, foreign service national (FSN) investigators, an office management specialist and other secretarial and staff assistants, a Surveillance Detection Unit (with a mission of detecting hostile surveillance), security engineering officers, security technical specialists, as well as Navy Seabees assigned to post.

Robert LaSardo

Robert also spent four years in the U.S. Navy, spending two of those years handling Navy attack dogs in the Aleutian Islands.

San Diego Bay

Later it served as base headquarters of major ships of the United States Navy in the Pacific until just before the United States entered World War II, when the newly organized United States Pacific Fleet primary base was transferred to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Skycycle X-2

An earlier prototype, the Skycycle X-1 designed by Doug Malewicki and retired United States Navy engineer Robert Truax, superficially resembled a motorcycle.

Sulfur hexafluoride

The United States Navy's Mark 50 torpedo closed Rankine-cycle propulsion system is powered by sulfur hexafluoride in an exothermic reaction with solid lithium.

Task Force 44

The task force consisted of warships from the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and United States Navy and was generally assigned as a striking force to defend northeast Australia and the surrounding area from any attacks by Axis forces, particularly from the Empire of Japan.

The Dolans

He also served in the United States Navy in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968 and holds a bachelor's degree in marketing from Boston College.

The Neptune Factor

The nature of the "Sealab" underwater facility may have been suggested by real-world projects of the 1960s: the ConShelf Two project that Jacques Cousteau participated in, or the US Navy SEALAB.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X

In response, Artemis takes up a profitable contract with Las Trinidad and launches a surprise attack on the United States Navy carrier strike group in the Strait of Magellan.

Types of volcanic eruptions

A system in the North Pacific, maintained by the United States Navy and originally intended for the detection of submarines, has detected an event on average every 2 to 3 years.

United States B-class submarine

The B class submarines were three United States Navy submarines built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy, Massachusetts, under a subcontract from the Electric Boat Company.

USS Bentinck

One ship of the United States Navy under a lend lease program has been named Bentinck in honor of John Bentinck.

USS Big Horn

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Big Horn, after the Bighorn River.

USS Canonicus

Four ships of the United States Navy have been named Canonicus for Canonicus, a chief of the Narragansett Indians, who befriended Roger Williams, and presented him with a large tract of land for the Rhode Island colony.

USS Harding

Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Harding, in honor of Seth Harding.

USS Oak Hill

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Oak Hill, in honor of Oak Hill plantation, the estate of James Monroe, the fifth U.S. President, in Loudoun County, Virginia.

USS Varuna

Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Varuna for Varuna, the Vedic god of oceans and rivers and keeper of the souls of the drowned.

Vought

Vought died from septicemia in 1930, but in that short time period succeeded in producing a variety of fighters, trainers, flying boats, and surveillance aircraft for the United States Navy and the United States Army Air Service.

Weapon System Safety

The United States Navy formed the Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board (WSESRB) in 1968 as a result of the tragic fire on the USS Forrestal (CV-59).