USS John D. Edwards (DD-216) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. John D. Edwards was born on 2 August 1885 in...
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destroyer in commission from 1919 to 1922 and from 1939 to 1940; transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Buxton in 1940 USS Edwards (DD-619), a Gleaves-class...
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Navy Cross (category Awards established in 1919)
an MOH) Henry E. Eccles Richard S. Edwards Joseph F. Enright Harry D. Felt William Charles Fitzgerald namesake of USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) Eugene B. Fluckey...
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USS John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630) USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) USS John Clay (1919) USS John Collins (1919) USS John D. Edwards (DD-216) USS John D. Ford...
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States in January 1919 and was detached from the command of Cushing two months later. He then commanded for brief period a destroyer USS Hogan and also served...
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salvage of the submarine USS S-51, earning the first of his three Navy Distinguished Service Medals, and later that of the USS S-4. He qualified as a naval...
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USS Cyclops (AC-4) was the second of four Proteus-class colliers built for the United States Navy several years before World War I.[citation needed] Named...
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veteran. Jesse D. Langdon (1881–1975) – U.S. Army. Last member of the Rough Riders. John Davis (1877–1970) – U.S. Navy. Served on USS Marblehead. Last...
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in Washington, D.C., for a month of special duty. He assumed command of the troop transport USS Von Steuben (ID-3017) on May 17, 1919; the ship ferried...
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USS Fletcher (DD-445), in National Museum of the United States Navy, Washington, D.C. USS Radford (DD-446), in USS Orleck Naval Museum, Louisiana USS...
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April 29, 1945, seventeen days after Roosevelt's death, the carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt was launched and served from 1945 to 1977. London's Westminster...
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Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 57 (USS Whipple, USS Alden, USS John D. Edwards and Edsall) with the destroyer tender USS Black Hawk, to Balikpapan, Borneo...
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the Monuments Men was Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite (1927–2020). Bray was a USS Indianapolis crew member. The last survivor of the ship's Marine Detachment...
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1934 – The rigid airship USS Macon surprised the USS Houston near Clipperton Island with a mail delivery for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, demonstrating...
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Museum ships USS Cassin Young (DD-793) - Boston National Historical Park, Charlestown, MA USS Charrette (DD-581) - Thessaloniki, Greece USS Edson (DD-946)...
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2012. Edwards, A., Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell, p. 54. Mitchell, M., et al., A Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919–1921...
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Navy Distinguished Service Medal (category Awards established in 1919)
Edney (2 awards) Richard S. Edwards Robert L. Eichelberger (4 awards) Dwight D. Eisenhower James O. Ellis Edward Ellsberg John L. Estrada Craig S. Faller...
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the Coral Sea (1959) – USS Dragonfish Operation Petticoat (1959) – US comedy directed by Blake Edwards, depicting fictional USS Sea Tiger; remade in 1977...
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1919 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in November 1919: The California...
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2004 Democratic Party presidential primaries (category John Edwards)
Wesley Clark, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, and Senators John Edwards and John Kerry. For most of 2003, Howard Dean had been the apparent front-runner...
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USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), U.S. Navy aircraft carrier ordered in April 1964, launched May 1967, decommissioned August 2007; nicknamed "Big John" Kennedy...
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warship USS Maine. This action by the U.S. indicated high national interest. Tension among the American people was raised because of the explosion of USS Maine...
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Destroyers-for-bases deal (category Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt)
or sale of arms from the US to any combatant nation. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was further constrained because 1940 Presidential election was...
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SS Edmund Fitzgerald (redirect from John D. Simmons)
Retrieved February 20, 2011. Kantar (1998), p. 6. Schumacher (2005), pp. 9–10. Edwards, Jack (2000). Big Fitz. Chicago: Wayne Rigby Literacy. p. 5. ISBN 0-7635-6807-4...
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Packers) (b. 1942) John Scales Avery, 90, chemist and peace activist (b. 1933) Fred Chappell, 87, author and poet (b. 1936) Elliott D. Kieff, 80, virologist...
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JP Miller (category 1919 births)
Roses, directed by John Frankenheimer for Playhouse 90 (1958) and later the 1962 film of the same name directed by Blake Edwards. Miller was the son...
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English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964) 1892 – John Alcock, captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (d. 1919) 1893 – Raymond Loewy, French-American...
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List of last words (20th century) (section 1910–1919)
execution by electrocution "I've been looking forward to this.": 58 — Edgar Edwards, convicted murderer (1902), on the way to the scaffold "Shoot straight...
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Carlson; CEO, United Airlines John Whitehead; Chairman, Goldman Sachs Benjamin Edwards – President, Chairman, CEO, A.G. Edwards, Inc. Roger Enrico – CEO,...
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in 1919. She spent most of her career in Southeast Asia as a passenger-cargo ship for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and, renamed Florence D., hauling...
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