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The USS Arizona ( BB-39 ) | USS Arizona sunk and burning during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
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He was assigned as the senior medical officer of the USS Forrestal, and in March 1979 completed F-4 training at VMFAT-101 in Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona.
Johnie Hallmark was serving as a US Navy Seaman 1st Class aboard the USS Nevada ( BB-36 ), a World War I era battleship, which was anchored adjacent to Ford Island and ahead of the USS Arizona ( BB-39 ) on Battleship Row during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
It now sits near the USS Arizona memorial to demonstrate where U. S. involvement in World War II started on December 7, 1941, and where it ended by the signing of the Peace Treaty by the Japanese on board the USS Missouri, on September 2, 1945.
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Battleship DIVISION FOUR, under Rear Admiral William Veazie Pratt, comprised USS Arizona ( BB-39 ) ( F ), under Captain J. R. Y. Blakely, NEVADA ( BB-36 ), MISSISSIPPI ( BB-41 ), and.
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A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh ( CG-67 ) | USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga-class cruiser.
Destroyer USS Agerholm | USS Agerholm fires an ASROC with a nuclear depth bomb in the " Operation Dominic I and II | Swordfish " test in 1962
USS Winston S. Churchill ( DDG-81 ) | USS Winston S. Churchill, an Arleigh Burke class destroyer | Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy.
USS McGowan ( DD-678 ) | USS McGowan, a Fletcher class destroyer | Fletcher-class destroyer during World War II
File: US Navy 090812-N-7498L-119 Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Justin Varner, from Camby, Texas, prepares an M-240 machine gun aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS O ' Kane ( DDG 77 ) as the ship prepares to defend from small boat attacks. jpg | Ship-mounted, aboard a US Navy destroyer
File: US Navy 090612-N-3659B-122 Members of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit ( EODMU ) 11, Platoon 0-2, take their positions on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan ( CVN 76 ) during a fast-roping exercise. jpg | US Navy EOD M45 gas mask system.
The burning frigate USS Philadelphia ( 1799 ) | Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli, 16 February 1804, by Edward Moran, painted 1897.
At an Ohio history festival, 19th century style brig warship USS Niagara passes the Lorain, Ohio | Lorain lighthouse.
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* USS New England ( 1861 ), a whaler purchased in 1861 and sunk as an obstruction as part of the " Stone Fleet " in 1862
* 1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O ' Kane ( the top American submarine captain of World War II ) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
After his leading ironclad, USS Tecumseh, was sunk by a tethered contact mine ( torpedo ), his vessels halted, afraid of hitting additional torpedoes.
* August 22 – WWII: Tsushima Maru, a Japanese unmarked passenger / cargo ship, is sunk by torpedoes launched by the submarine USS Bowfin off Akuseki-jima, killing 1, 484 civilians including 767 schoolchildren.
* July 30 – WWII: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis is hit and sunk by torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I-58 in the Philippine Sea.
* May 12 – WWII ; The Japanese minelayer Okinoshima is sunk by the American submarine USS S-42 ( SS-153 ).
** Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.
The careers of all five ships were almost entirely unsuccessful and very short, with USS Atik sunk on its first patrol ; all Q-ships patrols ended in 1943.
** No. 23 Nittō Maru, a patrol boat sunk after it encountered the USS Hornet ( CV-8 ), causing the early launch of the Doolittle Raid
A single Union vessel, the USS Varuna, was sunk near Buras in an engagement with the Confederate steamer Governor Moore.
The community came into being with the establishment of the Patuxent Naval Air Station during World War II, and was named for the recently sunk USS Lexington aircraft carrier.
* The famous aircraft carrier the USS Lexington which was sunk in 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea was constructed in some areas with lumber that had been milled in D ' Lo.
* Tunis Craven ( 1813 – 64 ), commanding officer of the USS Tecumseh, an iron-hulled, single-turret monitor, commissioned in 1864 and sunk in the Battle of Mobile Bay.
When the Alabama was finally sunk off the coast of Normandy by the USS Kearsarge in 1864, prospectors sympathetic to the North named a mining district, a mountain pass, a mountain peak, and a town after the Kearsarge.
* USS Mariposa ( X-125 ), Liberty ship carrying gasoline ; sunk December 30, 1944 off Occidental Mindoro by Allied torpedoes after devastating Japanese air attack
* USS Langley ( CV-1 ), the first aircraft carrier of the Navy, converted from the collier Jupiter in 1922, and sunk in February 1942 by the Japanese
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