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97 unusual facts about United States Navy


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 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.

1962 Australian Grand Prix

The race, held at the former United States Navy air base in still remote Western Australia, had just ten starters, seven of which had made the long trek across the Nullarbor Plain from the eastern states, joined by just three local entries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center

The merger was accomplished in three phases and is named in honor of Apollo 13 astronaut, Captain James A. Lovell, USN.

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.

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.

Chichagof Pass

Lieutenant Commander H. E. Nichols, USN, published the present name in the 1891 Coast Pilot; the original name was probably given for the ship Chichagov.

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.

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.

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.

Don Stanley

During World War II, he served in the United States Navy and also did announcing work for the Armed Forces Radio Service.

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.

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.

Frank S. Petersen

He enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II, after which he received an associate degree from Santa Rosa Junior College in 1948 and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco in 1951.

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.

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.

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.

Gustavus Conyngham

Because Benjamin Franklin had given him an official commission, he was not merely a privateer, but an actual Captain in the United States Navy.

Hans F. Bauer

He served in the United States Navy for 2 years after receiving his undergraduate degree (1954–1956).

Henry R. Towne

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

History of the Iranian Air Force

Later in the 1970s, the IIAF became the only military force other than the United States Navy to be equipped with the F-14 Tomcat.

HMAS Uki

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

Jack K. McFall

McFall worked on the staff of the Appropriations Committee until World War II when he joined the United States Navy, serving as a Commander.

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.

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.

Jonas Phillips

A founder of Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, Phillips was the father of twenty-one children and the grandfather of Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish Commodore in the United States Navy.

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.

Key West Agreement

Its most prominent feature was an outline for the division of air assets between the Army, Navy, and the newly created Air Force which, with modifications, continues to provide the basis for the division of these assets in the U.S. military today.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

Oklahoma World War II Army Airfields

Note: Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base, originally Naval Air Station Clinton, was acquired by the U. S. Navy in 1942.

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 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.

Phil Hermanson

After graduating Goddard High School, five miles from Wichita, Kansas, he joined the United States Navy and served as a deep sea diver from 1983-1990.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Synthetic fuels in the United States

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

Telephone numbers in Cuba

The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, operated by the United States Navy, has an unofficial area code of 99, which is only dialable from within the United States.

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 C. Butler

Butler received his MD degree from Vanderbilt University in 1967 and served in the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit studying infectious disease, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.

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.

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.

United States Navy Band

The United States Navy Band, based at the historic Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., has served the nation as the official musical organization of the United States Navy since 1925.

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.

United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Airland

The Airland Subcommittee has primary jurisdiction over all issues related to the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Navy and Marine Corps tactical aviation programs; however, it does not include strategic forces, strategic airlift issues, and special operations programs.

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 LST-594

USS LST-594 was an LST-542 class tank landing ship, built for the United States Navy during World War II.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Edward Emery

In July, 1861, he entered the United States Navy as third assistant engineer, and served on the “Richmond” during engagements at Pensacola, Florida, the Mississippi river passes, and finally under David Farragut.

Chesty Anderson, USN

Chesty Anderson, U.S. Navy is a 1976 R-rated comedy film featuring Shari Eubank as Chesty Anderson, a WAVE (Woman Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in the U.S. Navy.

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.

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.

Edward L. O'Neill

He served in the United States Navy from 1919–1923, after which he became engaged in the real estate business in Newark.

Eleanor V. Valentin

Rear Admiral Eleanor V. Valentin is the first female flag officer to serve as director of the United States Navy Medical Service Corps.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Japanese oiler Irō

On March 31, 1944 the ship was attacked and sunk in Palau Harbor by United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft from the Fast Carrier Task Force during Operation Desecrate One.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Withington

Withington was awarded the Legion of Merit by the U.S. Navy in 1945, the Silver Star, the French croix de guerre, the British Mons Star, World War I victory ribbon, the Army of Occupation of Germany ribbon, the American Defense ribbon and the Pacific Asiatic ribbon with star.

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.

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.

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.

USS Andrew Doria

Two vessels of the United States Navy have been named Andrew Doria, which is the anglicized name of Italian admiral Andrea Doria.

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 Etlah

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

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 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.

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.