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81 unusual facts about United States Navy


1942 NFL Championship Game

The game pitted the undefeated Western Division champion Chicago Bears (11–0), co-coached by Hunk Anderson and Luke Johnsos after George Halas had entered the U.S. Navy and led by quarterback Sid Luckman versus the Eastern Division champion Washington Redskins (10–1) who were led by coach Ray Flaherty and quarterback Sammy Baugh.

2d Antisubmarine Squadron

Deployed again to Port Lyautey in French Morocco in March 1943 to shore up scanty Allied antisubmarine defenses in the Atlantic approaches to the Straits of Gibraltar as part of 2037th Antisubmarine Wing (Provisional) under the operational control of the United States Navy (USN) Fleet Air Wing 15 (FAW-15), which answered to the commander of the Moroccan Sea Frontier.

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.

Allied Joint Command Lisbon

During the 2000s (decade), the commander was a United States Navy Vice Admiral who simultaneously held the position of Commander United States Sixth Fleet and Commander, Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO, the old STRIKFORSOUTH), both located in Naples, Italy.

Allison Engine Company

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

American Islamic Forum for Democracy

A former Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy, Dr. Jasser served 11 years as a medical officer.

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.

Bethel Baptist Hospital

It began to grow in 1949, when Dr. Lincoln Nelson, a Naval Physician, and Mrs. Nelson, RN joined the team, and when in 1951, and Mr. Esson, a pharmacist and Mrs. Esson, RN joined the team in 1951.

Betsy Ross flag

Although early American flags featured stars with various numbers of points, the five-pointed star is the defining feature of the Betsy Ross design, and became the norm on Navy Ensigns.

Billie Orr

Billie Orr is married and has a son who is a pilot in the United States Navy.

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.

Bob Geigel

Born October 1, 1924, in Algona, Iowa, Geigel entered the navy after high school and fought in the Pacific Theatre during World War II as a member of the Seabees.

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.

Brigham McCown

Mr. McCown has served the public on active duty in Operation Desert Storm with the United States Navy as a naval aviator and holds an honorary commission of Rear Admiral (LH) in the United States Maritime Administration.

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.

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.

Darren Taylor

After graduating from Los Angeles High School and being honorably discharged after four years in the United States Navy, he drifted back into gang life before having an awakening.

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.

Erie BayHawks

The team's colors of black, red, and gold pay homage to the Erie-based Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and to the United States Navy uniforms worn during the War of 1812.

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.

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.

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.

Great Green Fleet

The Great Green Fleet is the popular nickname of the carrier strike group serving as the US Navy's proving ground for the strategic and tactical viability of biofuels.

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 Caruso

He enrolled at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1939 with plans to study medicine, but left to join the US Navy Air Corp and earned the distinction of Navy Pilot LTJG.

Henry R. Towne

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

HMAS Uki

In March 1943, Uki was requisitioned into the United States Navy.

Inman Report

The report is usually known by the name of its chairman, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, USN (Ret.)

Jack Mendelsohn

Dropping out of high school, Mendelsohn joined the Navy and after World War II, he contributed gag cartoons to The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines.

Jonathan Gaffney

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

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.

Len Okrie

Okrie's playing career stretched from 1942 through 1957, with three seasons (1943–1945) missed due to World War II service in the United States Navy.

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.

Luther Lochman von Wedekind

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

Malaria vaccine

From 1989 to 1999, eleven volunteers recruited from the United States Public Health Service, United States Army, and United States Navy were immunized against Plasmodium falciparum by the bites of 1001 to 2927 mosquitos that had been irradiated with 15,000 rads of gamma rays from a Co-60 or Cs-137 source.

McDonnell Aircraft

In 1943, McDonnell began developing jets when they were invited to bid on a US Navy contest and eventually building the successful FH-1 Phantom in the post-war era.

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 Petroleum Reserve–Alaska

The NPRA was created by President Warren G. Harding in 1923 as Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 4 during a time when the United States was converting its Navy to run on oil rather than coal.

Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center

The organization is centered around a primary customer: the United States federal government, specifically branches of the Department of Defense, the Navy, and the Marine Corps, although it does conduct business with a variety of other government and private organizations.

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.

North Atlantic weather war

A total of 20 United States Navy frigates were used across the Pacific for similar operations.

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)

Operation Steel Pike

Operation Steel Pike was the largest peacetime amphibious landing exercise in history, conducted by the United States Navy and Marine Corps and taking place on the coast of Spain in October to November 1964.

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.

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.

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.

Rheinmetall Air Defence

Originally used as anti-aircraft weapons by the US Navy, they were frequently the last line of defence against kamikaze attacks.

Richard Fuisz

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

Rufus Osgood Mason

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

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.

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.

Telepharmacy

The U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine operates a large-scale telepharmacy program for the use of service personnel.

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.

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.

Todd Cochrane

He is also the Founder of Podcast Connect Inc.and is a recently retired Senior Chief Petty Officer of the United States Navy.

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 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.

United States Navy use of Hydrometer 1800s

Captain John Rodgers, Lieutenant Porter, and Dr. William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger, all of the United States Navy did this as did Dr. Raymond, in the American steamer Golden Age, and Captain Henry Toynbee, (F.R.A.S., F.R.A.G.S) of the English East Indiaman the Gloriana.

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.

Walter Tevis

Near the end of World War II, the 17-year-old Tevis served in the Pacific Theater as a Navy carpenter's mate on board the USS Hamilton.

Wetting-down

Wetting-down is a raucous ceremony for newly promoted officers observed in the U.S. and Royal navies, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

WKC Stahl- und Metallwarenfabrik

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


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.

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).

Cape Leahy

It was discovered and photographed from the air on January 24, 1947, by United States Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–1947, and named by Rear admiral Richard E. Byrd for Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, U.S. Navy, who, as naval advisor to President Harry S. Truman at the time of Operation Highjump, assisted materially at the high-level planning and authorization stages.

Carlisle Trost

Admiral Carlisle Albert Herman Trost, USN (born April 24, 1930 in Valmeyer, Illinois) is a retired United States Navy officer who served as the Navy's twenty-third Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1 July 1986 to 29 June 1990.

Deployable Joint Command and Control

In partnership with the U.S. Navy Second Fleet, the DJC2 program has also produced and demonstrated a prototype configuration of a Joint Task Force headquarters afloat command and control capability, called the DJC2 Maritime Demonstrator.

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.

Douglas XTB2D Skypirate

The Douglas TB2D Skypirate (also known as the Devastator II) was a torpedo bomber intended for service with the United States Navy's Midway and Essex class aircraft carriers; they were too large for earlier decks.

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.

Jay Kordich

After three years in the United States Navy, he won a football scholarship to the University of Southern California and in 1949 was drafted by the Green Bay Packers.

Joe C. Davis, Jr.

During the Second World War, he joined the United States Navy and served as a Lieutenant, participating in the invasions of Sicily, Salerno and Normandy.

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.

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.

Keiko Chiba

To oppose Yokosuka being a home port for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the United States Navy, and to move the night landing practices from the naval air facility at Atsugi to one in Iwo Jima.

Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division

The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) of the United States Navy is located in Orlando, Florida in the Central Florida Research Park adjacent to the University of Central Florida (UCF).

Navy Times

Navy Times (ISSN 0028-1697) is a weekly newspaper serving active, reserve and retired United States Navy personnel and their families, providing news, information and analysis as well as community lifestyle features, educational supplements and resource guides.

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.

Shane Rimmer

They appeared together as United States Navy sailors in The Bedford Incident (1965) and as NASA technicians in the opening of You Only Live Twice (1967), as well as touring together on stage, including a production of Death of a Salesman in the 1990s.

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.

Stasilon

Originally intended for military use, NATO and United States Navy reviews have reported its abilities to be unsuited to life-threatening arterial hemorrhaging.

Submarine Command Course

The SMCC is attended by submariners from other navies, including the Royal Australian Navy, the Brazilian Navy, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Danish Navy (prior to their withdrawal of their submarine capability), the Republic of Korea Navy, and the United States Navy.

Tang-class submarine

The Tang class submarines were a product of the Greater Underwater Propulsion Power Program (GUPPY), which incorporated German U-boat technology into the United States Navy's submarine design.

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.

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.

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.

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 Charlotte

Four vessels of the United States Navy have been named USS Charlotte, after the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.

USS Etlah

Two warships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Etlah, derived from a Native American word meaning "White Lily".

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 Trenton

Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Trenton, after the city of Trenton, New Jersey, site of the Battle of Trenton in the American Revolutionary War.

Yakovlev Yak-44

The Yakovlev Yak-44 was a proposed twin turboprop Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft, resembling the United States Navy's E-2 Hawkeye, and intended for use with the Soviet Navy's Ulyanovsk class supercarriers.