USS Midway (CV-41) refueling USS Badger (DE-1071) in the South China Sea, April 1975, during Operation Frequent Wind. Original photograph by DanMS. USS Badger (FF-1071) The U.S. Navy frigate USS Badger (FF-1071) underway in the Pacific Ocean on 1 December 1985. History The first Badger (DD-126) was named for Commodore Oscar C. Badger (a cousin of Secretary of the Navy George Edmund Badger), theContinue reading “USS Badger (FF-1071) was a Knox-class frigate in service in the United States Navy from 1970 to 1991. She was sunk as a target in 1998.”
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USS Arkansas (CGN-41) was a Virginia-class nuclear-propelled guided-missile cruiser of the U.S. Navy. She was in commission (in active service) from October 1980 through July 1998.
Photos of USS Arkansas (CGN-41) The U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Arkansas (CGN-41) in 1985 An explosive charge is detonated off the starboard side of the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS ARKANSAS (CGN-41) during a shock test. The U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Arkansas (CGN-41) passing close along the starboard side of the aircraft carrierContinue reading “USS Arkansas (CGN-41) was a Virginia-class nuclear-propelled guided-missile cruiser of the U.S. Navy. She was in commission (in active service) from October 1980 through July 1998.”
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USS Elrod (FFG-55), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, is a ship of the United States Navy named after Captain Henry T. Elrod (1905–1941), a Marine aviator who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the defense of Wake Island in World War II.
Ship history Elrod was built at the Bath Iron Works in Maine, and was commissioned on 18 May 1985. The ship was originally home ported in Charleston, SC and shifted to Norfolk, VA in March 1995. Elrod has completed five deployments to the Persian Gulf, three to the Mediterranean Sea, and one to the AdriaticContinue reading “USS Elrod (FFG-55), an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate, is a ship of the United States Navy named after Captain Henry T. Elrod (1905–1941), a Marine aviator who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism in the defense of Wake Island in World War II.”
USS Windham Bay ferrying F86 jets to Korea in the 1950s
USS Windham Bay (CVE-92) was the thirty-eighth of fifty Casablanca-class escort carriers built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after Windham Bay, within Tongass National Forest, of the Territory of Alaska. The ship was launched in March 1944, commissioned in May, and served as a replenishment and transport carrier throughout the Invasion of Iwo Jima and the Battle of Okinawa. Postwar, she participated in Operation Magic Carpet, repatriating U.S.… ReadContinue reading “USS Windham Bay ferrying F86 jets to Korea in the 1950s”
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