:* Chicago has hosted a variety of Bastille Day celebrations in a number of locations in the city, including Navy Pier and Oz Park.

Landfill extends into portions of the lake providing space for Navy Pier, Northerly Island, the Museum Campus, and large portions of the McCormick Place Convention Center.

View of Navy Pier from the 23rd floor of Lake Point Tower

Navy Pier, located just east of Streeterville, is long and houses retail stores, restaurants, museums, exhibition halls and auditoriums.

* Amazing Chicago's Funhouse Maze, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

He also spearheaded the conversion of Navy Pier into a popular tourist destination.

Byrne used special events, such as ChicagoFest, to revitalize Navy Pier and the downtown Chicago Theatre.

Navy Pier is a long pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan.

As Municipal Pier # 2 ( Municipal Pier # 1 was never built ), Navy Pier was planned and built to serve as a mixed-purpose piece of public infrastructure.

Today, Navy Pier is Chicago's number one tourist attraction.

In 1917-18, during World War I ( WWI ), the Pier housed many Navy and some Army personnel, the Red Cross, and Home Defense units.

" In 1927 the Pier was officially named Navy Pier in honor of the Naval personnel that served there during WWI.

In August 1941, Navy Pier was closed to the public, and in a five-month period was fully converted to a Navy training center designated to accommodate up to 10, 000 service personnel.

By December 1943, these Secondary Schools had reached their capacity, and a major portion of Navy Pier was quickly converted to a fourth school.

Classes started at the Navy Pier Secondary School on 5 June 1944 ; Captain Edwin A. Wolleson was the Commanding Officer, and Commander Charles C. Caveny served as the Educational Officer.

Lecture rooms, laboratories, and offices of the Navy Pier Secondary School were highly secure, controlled 24 hours by armed Marine guards.

In mid-1946, with WWII over, the Navy returned Navy Pier to the City of Chicago.

In the four and one-half years under the Navy, over 60, 000 servicemen fron the U. S. and Allied nations trained at the Pier in several types of schools ; this included about 15, 000 electronic technicians in the two years of the Secondary School.

With the war over, Navy Pier went to the University of Illinois, which used the facility beginning in 1946 for a two-year undergraduate program primarily serving returning veterans.

During its University of Illinois days, Navy Pier was also the site of a string of public events.

The shipyard also contains a portion of the United States Navy reserve fleet, a large collection of inactive U. S. Navy vessels, including four aircraft carriers ; the USS Independence, the USS Constellation, the USS Ranger and the USS Kitty Hawk.

It contains displays tracing the history of Toulon as a port of the French Navy.

It contains the graves of notable people, including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy and a granddaughter of Napoleon.

It contains information on ships and service craft that make up the official inventory of the Navy from the time a vessel is authorized through its life cycle and disposal.

Bancroft Hall, named after former Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft, is home for the entire brigade of 4, 000 midshipmen, and contains some 1, 700 rooms, of corridors, and of floor space.

The Brigade is commanded by a Royal Marines Brigadier and contains Royal Marines, Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force.

* Callao-Main naval base, dockyard and naval aviation base, Naval Medical Center which contains the US Navy unit Naval Medical Research Unit Six

* Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA. http :// www. phillyseaport. org-Dale collection contains many family heirlooms. 023 ; through. 025 and the original Henry Knox letter to John Barry announcing the six original captains in the U. S. Navy

Finally, the park contains a U. S. Navy Douglas EA-3B Skywarrior, commemorating a mission in the Mediterranean on January 25, 1987 in which all seven crew members died.

The NCM collection contains thousands of artifacts, including numerous working World War II German Enigma machines ( 2 of them are available for visitors to try out ), and a Navy Bombe used to break it.

NAS I also contains the Navy Exchange and Commissary, the school, and some homes, mainly for the commodore of Task Force 67, the air station commanding officer, air station executive officer and commanding officers of tenant activities.

This category contains articles about admirals of the Imperial Russian Navy, from the time of Tsar Peter I to the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War.

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This category contains articles about admirals in the French Navy, from the monarchical period ( the Ancien Régime ) to the present.

The onshore museum building contains a number of different and unique items ranging from a United States Navy SEALs delivery vehicle to personal photographs and effects.

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This category contains articles about the officers in the Austro-Hungarian Navy ( 1867-1918 ).

Designed to resemble the hangar deck of a World War II Navy aircraft carrier, it contains a number of items from the USS Enterprise ( CV-6 ), donated by members of her crew and flight squadrons.

This information contains material created by the United States Navy and is in the public domain.

NAS Pensacola contains Forrest Sherman Field, home of Training Air Wing SIX, providing undergraduate flight training for all prospective Naval Flight Officers for the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps, and flight officers / navigators for other NATO / Allied / Coalition partners.

The Foundation Navy contains numerous Democratic cells intent on aiding a democratic rebellion from without.

In addition, NWS Charleston contains more than 1, 800 on-base houses for Navy enlisted and officer dependents as well as Coast Guard dependents, and has a child care facility, elementary and middle schools.

Most famously, the British Royal Navy held command of the sea for long periods from the 18th to the early 20th century, allowing Britain and its allies to trade and to move troops and supplies easily in wartime while its enemies could not ( the importance of which is reflected in the famous British patriotic song, " Rule, Britannia !," which contains the exhortation, " Rule Britannia!