USS Simon Newcomb (AGSC-14/YMS-263) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II, and whose task...
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Louisiana Newcomb High School, New Mexico USS Newcomb (DD-586), a U.S. Navy World War II destroyer, named for Frank Newcomb USS Simon Newcomb (AGSC-14)...
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USS Newcomb (DD-586) was a Fletcher-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only ship named for Commodore Frank H....
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operations out of Norfolk, Virginia, and on 9 August steamed to assist the USS Simon Newcomb (AGSC-14), aground in Mother Burns Cove, Labrador. Towing the vessel...
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Richard Fairchild Newcomb (June 6, 1913 – December 3, 2004) was a wartime naval correspondent during World War II and received a Purple Heart. He was...
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(1982). All the Drowned Sailors. Jove Books. Newcomb, Richard (2000) [1958]. Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the USS Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster...
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List of United States Navy ships: S (redirect from USS Somerset (1917))
(YN-92/AN-68) USS Silversides (SS-236/AGSS-236, SSN-679, SSN-807) USS Silverstein (DE-534) USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641) USS Simon Lake (AS-33) USS Simon Newcomb (AGS-14/AGSC-14)...
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was an American naval officer and the commanding officer of the cruiser USS Indianapolis which was lost in action in 1945, resulting in a significant...
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to YMS 319. Notable ships: USS McMinnville, USS James M. Gilliss (AMCU-13), USS Simon Newcomb, USS Dutton (AGS-8) and USS Grosbeak (AMS-14). South Coast...
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Maxwell Taylor: Danger's Hour, The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot who Crippled Her, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2008 ISBN 978-0743260800...
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Abandoned ships included the USS Ommaney Bay, USS Long, USS Brooks (partly abandoned), USS Hovey, USS Palmer, USS LCI(G)-365, and USS LCI(M)-974. Time is in...
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the amphibious landings on Okinawa on 1 April, USS Franklin suffered over 800 killed and missing and USS Bunker Hill suffered 396 killed and missing. These...
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Sasgen, Peter T. (2005). Red Scorpion: The War Patrols of the USS Rasher. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7434-8910-2 Tate, E. Mowbray. (1986)....
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USS R. B. Forbes was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Originally built in either 1845 or 1846, the vessel saw service...
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(flagship USS St. Louis, USS Carondelet, USS Louisville, and USS Pittsburg) and three timberclad (wooden) gunboats (USS Conestoga, USS Tyler, and USS Lexington)...
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2013. "No. 46310". The London Gazette (Supplement). 7 June 1974. p. 6799. Newcomb, Horace (7 October 2004). Encyclopedia of television (2 ed.). Routledge...
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"Westsee". Historisches Marinearchiv (in German). Retrieved 15 October 2024. "Simon von Utrecht". Historisches Marinearchiv (in German). Retrieved 15 October...
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Atakapa" Archived 2007-07-03 at the Wayback Machine, Lutherans Online Newcomb, 327. "Attakapas", The Cajuns.com. Milfort, Louis Leclerc. Memoirs or A...
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capable of taking off from aircraft carriers. His squadron was assigned to the USS San Jacinto as a member of Air Group 51, where his lanky physique earned...
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from the original on March 11, 2005. Retrieved September 1, 2008. Kuper, Simon (December 3, 2000). "Ruthian rise of Dubya". The Observer. London. Archived...
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towed the disabled Winslow away from the battle. Congress awarded Frank H. Newcomb, the captain of Hudson, a Congressional Gold Medal for his bravery. From...
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ISBN 9780231121651. Retrieved October 23, 2011. Pack, Lindsy E. (2004). Newcomb, Horace (ed.). Encyclopedia of Television. CRC Press. p. 816. ISBN 9781579584115...
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Ill.: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-07065-8. OCLC 49784806. Newcomb, Richard F.; Harry Schmidt (2002) [1965]. Iwo Jima. New York: Owl Books...
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Destroyer Squadron 56 (Roland N. Smoot): 5 Fletcher-class destroyers: Newcomb, Heywood L. Edwards, Richard P. Leary, Bennion, Leutze Unit Six (Commander...
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June 1944 by a torpedo bomber from USS Suwanee. I-85/I-185 – Sunk near Saipan on 22 June 1944 by USS Newcomb and USS Chandler. The Junsen I type (巡潜I型...
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1879–1881 John C. New, Treasurer of the United States, 1875–1876 Horatio C. Newcomb, Mayor of Indianapolis, 1849–1851 Hannah Milhous Nixon, mother of President...
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United States Roberta McCain (1912–2020), wife of John S. McCain Jr. Anita Newcomb McGee (1864–1940), woman doctor, founder of Army Nurse Corps Robert McNamara...
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from the original on September 19, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2012. Newcomb, Alyssa (July 2, 2014). "Fabien Cousteau Calls the Ocean 'Second Home'...
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and in 1910, or in 1909, it was the well-known physicist of his day, Simon Newcomb, ...who said anyone who thinks that the airplane will sometime replace...
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