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    USS Scribner (APD-122), ex-DE-689, was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1944 to 1946. James M. Scribner was born on 25 June...
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    Herndon (APD-121) USS Scribner (APD-122) USS Diachenko (APD-123) USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124) USS Wantuck (APD-125) USS Gosselin (APD-126) USS Begor (APD-127) USS Cavallaro (APD-128)...
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    prior to L-Day. Early March in 1945, they disembarked onto the USS Scribner (APD-122) and USS Kinzer (APD-91) from Pearl Harbor in Hawaiʻi, en route to Leyte...
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    SC-1634) USS S-1 (SS-105) USS S-2 (SS-106) USS S-3 (SS-107) USS S-4 (SS-109) USS S-5 (SS-110) USS S-6 (SS-111) USS S-7 (SS-112) USS S-8 (SS-113) USS S-9 (SS-114)...
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  • Barbara (October 12, 2004). Reflections: Life After the White House. Scribner. p. 236. ISBN 9780743255820. "Uncle Sen. Edward M. Kennedy attends graduation...
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    initial assault of Okinawa itself. Kinzer, in company with fast transport USS Scribner (APD-122), continued this pattern while dodging Japanese kamikaze suicide...
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    USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned...
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    Comedy of Customs. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0-7432-6157-7. Johnston, Stanley (1942). Queen of the Flat-Tops: The U.S.S. Lexington and the Coral Sea Battle...
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    The fifth USS Boston was a protected cruiser and one of the first steel warships of the "New Navy" of the 1880s. In some references she is combined with...
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    The first USS Chicago (later CA-14) was a protected cruiser of the United States Navy, the largest of the original three authorized by Congress for the...
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    1807, between the British fourth-rate HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake. The crew of Leopard pursued, attacked, and boarded the American...
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    USS Dale (later Oriole) was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy commissioned on 11 December 1839. Dale was involved in the Mexican–American War,...
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    carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann, while the carriers USS Enterprise and USS Hornet survived the battle fully intact. After Midway and the exhausting...
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    Stephen Decatur (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    Frigates: USS Guerrier (flagship), USS Macedonian and USS Constellation; sloop of war USS Ontario; brigs USS Epervier, USS Firefly, USS Flambeau and USS Spark;...
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    The first USS Powhatan was a sidewheel steam frigate in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for Powhatan, a Native American...
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    funding was approved for the USS Congress, USS Chesapeake, and USS President, plus the frigates USS General Greene and USS Adams. The provision of naval...
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    served as executive officer of the destroyer USS Saufley, and in March 1946, was transferred to the destroyer USS Zellars, as executive officer and navigator...
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    USS Atlanta was a protected cruiser and one of the first steel warships of the "New Navy" of the 1880s. In some references she is combined with Boston...
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  • and author of New York Times bestsellers In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (2001) and Horse...
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    1940, Ensign Kleiss served on board three ships: USS Vincennes (CA-44), USS Goff (DD-247), and USS Yarnall (DD-143). After passing his physical and psychological...
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    both the Civil War and World War II, along with the USS Constitution, USS Constellation and USS Hartford. The New York Yacht Club acquired several relics...
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    USS Essex, plus helicopter assault carrier USS Boxer, destroyers USS Hank, USS John W. Weeks, USS Purdy, USS Wren, and submarines USS Cobbler and USS Threadfin...
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    Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 148–152. Retrieved 29 May 2012. "Arqueonautas Worldwide". aww.pt. 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2012. "Artifacts Removed From USS Yorktown...
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    (1996) [1967]. "Chapter 17: The Scrutable Orientals". The Codebreakers. Scribner. p. 609. ISBN 978-0-684-83130-5. ...Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid sent, in...
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    Kenneth T.; Markoe, Arnie; Markoe, Karen; Markoe Gale, Arnold (2000). The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: 1994–1996. Vol. 4. Cengage Learning. p...
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    USS Plunkett (DD-431), a Gleaves-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett. Plunkett...
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    The USS Enterprise was a schooner, built by Henry Spencer at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1799. Her first commander thought that she was too lightly built...
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    Pennsylvania. Four U.S. Navy ships USS Barry (DD-2) (1902–1920) USS Barry (DD-248) (1921–1945) USS Barry (DD-933) (1956–1983) USS Barry (DDG-52) (1992–present)...
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    moved into position. The protected cruisers USS Des Moines (CL-17), USS Tacoma (CL-20), and collier USS Hannibal (AG-1) lay in the harbor at Bluefields...
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    Bidding and Forcing Overbids (Scribner, 1930), 333 pp. Enterprise: The Story of the Defense of the America's Cup in 1930 (Scribner, 1931), 230 pp. OCLC 1625050...
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