X-Nico

87 unusual facts about United States Navy


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.

1942 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

Two nights later, the American League All-Stars traveled to Cleveland Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, to play a special benefit game against a team of players from the U.S. Army and Navy.

1st Antisubmarine Squadron

It was part of the 2037th Antisubmarine Wing (Provisional) under the operational control of the United States Navy Fleet Air Wing 15, which answered to the commander of the Moroccan Sea Frontier.

859th Bombardment Squadron

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

863d Bombardment Squadron

Later re-equipped with B-25 Mitchell medium bombers, October 1942-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 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.

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.

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.

Brooklyn ship

Three ships of the United States Navy have borne the name Brooklyn, after the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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.

Carrick bend

A doubled carrick bend was used to ornamentally secure the lanyards on the breastplate of the US Navy Mark V diving helmet during inspection and between dives.

Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company

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

Central Pacific Area Fleet

With United States Navy forces having driven the Japanese out of the Marshall Islands and Caroline Islands in late 1943 to early 1944, the remnants of Japanese naval forces from those areas regrouped under the direction of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo.

Chevene Bowers King

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

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.

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.

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.

Denizköy, Dikili

The Denizköy VLF transmitter, a very low frequency transmitter for the United States Navy, is located near the village and is one of the tallest structures in Turkey.

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.

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.

Emeco 1006

The chair was commissioned in the 1940s by the United States Navy in World War II for use on warships: the contract specified that "it had to be able to withstand torpedo blasts to the side of a destroyer".

Ensign O'Toole and Me

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

Eugene Grace

He was right, as Bethlehem Steel quickly became one of the major steel suppliers of the war, as well as constructing many ships for the United States Navy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Great War at Sea series

Studying the actual plans of the United States Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy, Plan Orange attempts to recreate what a war in the Pacific would have been like in 1930 if there had been no Washington Naval Treaty.

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.

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.

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.

Joe Cerisano

His commercial work in television and radio singing includes spots for Coca-Cola, Chrysler/Plymouth, General Electric, Miller Beer, the United States Army, the United States Navy and numerous others.

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.

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.

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.

Keith Farnham

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

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.

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 Metal and Steel

National Metal and Steel was the final destination for many decommissioned United States Navy ships, and for many red streetcars of the famed Pacific Electric Railway and yellow cars of the Los Angeles Railway which became Los Angeles Transit Lines.

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.

Naval Service Bill

Moreover, the United States Navy was neglected in the decades following the American Civil War and relations between London and Washington improved after the Treaty of Washington was signed in 1871.

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.

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.

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.

Saugus Field

In 1940, property owner Godfrey Lowell Cabot offered the site to the United States Navy for use as the location of its main New England dirigible base.

Stasilon

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

Steve Bruno

Before starting his fighting career Steve was a Naval Air Crewman and Rescue Swimmer in the United States Navy.

Sunset Key

The United States Navy constructed Tank Island to serve as a fuel tank depot during the Cold War.

Telepharmacy

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

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 Cochrane

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

Tony Momsen

In November 1945, when Michigan's starting center, Harold Watts, was transferred for additional Navy training, Momsen became a starter at center for the 1945 football team.

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

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

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.

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.

Whitey Platt

He missed the 1944 and 1945 seasons while serving with the United States Navy in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

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.

Wright Aeronautical

In May 1923, Wright Aeronautical purchased the Lawrance Aero Engine Company, as the United States Navy was concerned that Lawrance couldn't produce enough engines for its needs.


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.

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.

Daniel Roses

Following his training in surgery at the New York University-Bellevue Medical Center, he served on active duty as Lieutenant Commander with the Medical Corps of the United States Navy, returning to the New York University School of Medicine as a clinical fellow of the American Cancer Society.

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.

Edward M. Burgess

From 1956-1959 Burgess served as an officer aboard the US Navy destroyer, USS Stormes (DD-780), a ship assigned to both the U.S. Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets.

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.

Frank M. Faircloth

Frank M. Faircloth (1820—January 6, 1900) was an American naval officer who served in the Union Navy during the Civil War.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joseph Prueher

He was succeeded as ambassador by Clark T. Randt, Jr. Prior to his posting as ambassador, Prueher was a United States Navy Admiral and the Commander, United States Pacific Command from 1996 to 1999 and Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1995 to 1996.

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.

National Security Personnel System

Also, employees working at DoD agencies, such as the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Tricare, the Office of the Inspector General and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, earned higher performance ratings and payouts overall than did their civilian counterparts in the three military service branches: United States Army, United States Navy, and United States Air Force.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SS City of Los Angeles

SS City of Los Angeles (1918), laid down under this name but became USS Victorious (ID-3514) for the United States Navy in World War I; sailed as SS City of Havre from 1931 to 1938; sailed as SS City of Los Angeles (1938) until 1940; became USS George F. Elliot (AP-13) for the United States Navy in World War II; bombed and sunk at Florida Island in 1942

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.

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.

USS Bentinck

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

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 Carrabasset

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Carrabasset, in honor of the Carrabassett River, a stream in Franklin County and Somerset Counties, Maine.

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 Pargo

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Pargo, named in honor of the pargo, a fish of the genus Lutjanus found in the West Indies.

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.

USS Wickes

Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Wickes, in honor of Lambert Wickes.

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.

Waban

One United States Navy ship, USS Waban, a steamer in commission from 1898 to 1919, has been named for Waban, and kept the name (as SS Waban) while in post-Navy mercantile service from 1919 to 1924.

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).

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.