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    USS Admiral W. S. Sims (AP-127) was a transport in the United States Navy. She was later renamed USNS General William O. Darby (T-AP-127). Later her name...
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  • been named USS Sims for William Sowden Sims. Additionally, one other ship was named Admiral W. S. Sims for the same man. The destroyer USS Sims (DD-409)...
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    destroyer escort USS Sims (DE-154). A transport vessel was named USS Admiral W. S. Sims. Additionally the Knox-class frigate USS W. S. Sims (FF-1059) was...
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    USS W.S. Sims (FF-1059) was a Knox-class frigate of the United States Navy named for William Sims. She was in commission from 1970 to 1991. W.S. Sims...
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    H. Paul Jeffers was published in 2007. An Admiral Benson Class transport ship, the USS Admiral W. S. Sims (AP-127), was renamed USAT General William...
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  • USS Admiral C. F. Hughes (AP-124) USS Admiral E. W. Eberle (AP-123) USS Admiral Hugh Rodman (AP-126) USS Admiral W. L. Capps (AP-121) USS Admiral W....
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  • Lines as the SS President Cleveland (ex-USS Admiral D. W. Taylor) and the SS President Wilson (ex-USS Admiral F. B. Upham). The President Wilson was later...
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  • Buenaventura-class fleet oilers during World War II USS Admiral W. S. Sims (AP-127) was a United States Navy transport ship USS Allendale (APA-127) was a United States...
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    Ernest J. King (redirect from Admiral King)
    in 1914, of the destroyer USS Terry in the occupation of Veracruz. During World War I, he served on the staff of Vice Admiral Henry T. Mayo, the commander...
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    Thomas C. Kinkaid (category United States Navy admirals)
    Promoted to rear admiral in 1941, he assumed command of a U.S. Pacific Fleet cruiser division. His cruisers defended the aircraft carrier USS Lexington during...
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    later that month, where he reported to the U.S. Navy commander in Europe, Vice Admiral William S. Sims, who had been a critic of the Navy's gunnery in...
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    USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), lead ship of her class, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for American Revolutionary War hero Ethan...
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    Nelson M. Walker (T-AP-125) USS Admiral Hugh Rodman (AP-126) / USNS General Maurice Rose (T-AP-126) USS Admiral W. S. Sims (AP-127) / USNS General William...
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    (AP-120) USS Admiral W. S. Sims (AP-127) USS Admiralty Islands (CVE-99) USS Admittance (1847) USS Adolph Hugel (1860) USS Adonis (ARL-4) USS Adopt...
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    1938; launched on 29 April 1939; sponsored by Mrs. Emory S. Land, wife of Rear Admiral Emory S. Land (Ret.), Chairman of the Maritime Commission; and commissioned...
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    Arleigh Burke (category United States Navy admirals)
    In addition to Burke, the other persons on the stamp pane were Admiral William S. Sims, Lieutenant Commander John McCloy, and Officer's Cook Third Class...
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    USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, she...
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    Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts; sponsored by Mrs. W. S. Sims, wife of Rear Admiral William Sims; and commissioned on 30 November 1918. Before joining...
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    War, and Navy Building. In 1921, a former member of Admiral Sims' wartime staff, Captain Dudley W. Knox, was named head of the Office of Naval Records...
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    brief tour of temporary duty with Rear Admiral William S. Sims, during which he took passage in torpedo boat USS Wilkes (TB-35), Castle served on a board...
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    USS Hammann (DD-412) was a World War II-era Sims-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy, named after Ensign Charles Hammann, a Medal...
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    Shōkaku and Zuikaku had recovered the aircraft that had sunk Neosho and Sims, Rear Admiral Chūichi Hara, commander of the 5th Carrier Division, ordered that...
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  • aboard the USS Seahawk. RADM Thomas Boone had a long and distinguished career in the United States Navy, rising to the rank of rear admiral and was considered...
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    morning at 10:05, embarked Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage, and a party that included Mrs. William S. Sims and the Sims' children, Margaret, Adeline, and...
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    to Hugh Rodman. Biography portal Admiral William Sims Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe Jones, Jerry (1998). U.S. Battleship Operations in World...
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    destroyers Sims, Anderson, Hammann and Walke, and the oiler Guadalupe, all under the command of Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher. Initially, TF 17's orders...
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    World War II, as one of the Admiral W. S. Benson-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, and intended to be named USS Admiral F.B. Upham (AP-129), but she...
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    USS Anderson (DD-411) was a Sims-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Edwin Alexander Anderson, Jr., a Medal of Honor...
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    commended for distinguished service by both Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson and Admiral William S. Sims. Lt. Comdr. Leahy was awarded the Navy Cross for...
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    Blue Fleet" was at this time under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance aboard his flagship USS Indianapolis, the force was designated Fifth Fleet...
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