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    USS Vega (AF-59) was a Rigel-class stores ship acquired by the U.S. Navy. Her task was to carry stores, refrigerated items, and equipment to ships in...
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  • War I and sold in 1921 USS Vega (AK-17), a single-screw, steel-hulled freighter built in 1919 and scrapped in 1946 USS Vega (AF-59), was a stores ship launched...
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    USS Denebola (AF-56) USS Regulus (AF-57) USNS Asterion (T-AF-63) USNS Perseus (T-AF-64) Rigel-class: MA type R3-S-4A USS Rigel (AF-58) USS Vega (AF-59)...
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    Mississippi Shipping Company's South American Service, 1946–47 USS Rigel (AF-58) and USS Vega (AF-59) storeships for the U.S. Navy in the 1950s Wichita-class...
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    munitions and guided missiles, Haleakala spent the first part of April with Vega (AF-59) conducting replenishment exercises to test new equipment. Haleakala...
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    (ID-2515) USS Vega (SP-734, AK-17, AF-59, T-AK-286) USS Vela (AK-89/T-AK-89) USS Vella Gulf (CVE-111/CVHE-111/AKV-11, CG-72) USS Velocipede (SP-1258) USS Velocity...
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    needed] On display F-105D 59-1822 - Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego, (Polish Aviation Museum), Kraków. On display F-105B 54-0102 - USS Alabama Battleship Memorial...
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    F-14 Tomcats from USS America that were orbiting in international air space on a Combat Air Patrol (CAP) station. A-7s operating from USS Saratoga responded...
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  • Squadron ONE (VAH-1) crashes on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CVA-59) during Operation Strikeback in the Norwegian Sea. It was a day...
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    2012 at the Wayback Machine (see chapter 7) "Bekendtgørelse af ILO-konvention nr. 169 af 28. juni 1989 vedrørende oprindelige folk og stammefolk i selvstændige...
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    the narrative. Thompson remains best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), a book first serialized in Rolling Stone in which he grapples with...
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    including Aldebaran Rock in Antarctica United States Navy stores ship USS Aldebaran (AF-10) and Italian frigate Aldebaran (F 590) proposed micro-satellite...
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    Cher (category Las Vegas shows)
    Back Time", caused controversy due to Cher's performance on the battleship USS Missouri, straddling a cannon, and wearing a leather thong that revealed...
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    2013. Retrieved 29 May 2013. "USAF Tier system scheme". Airpower.maxwell.af.mil. 1 July 1996. Archived from the original on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 20...
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  • Grumman AF-2 Guardian, 'SL', from Anti-submarine Squadron VS-22 crashes into the ocean immediately after launch from the escort carrier USS Block Island (CVE-106)...
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    Retrieved 2 April 2014. Kopp, Dr Carlo (28 June 2009). "Almaz 5V21/28 / S-200VE Vega Long Range Air Defence System / SA-5 Gammon Зенитный Ракетный Комплекс 5В21/28...
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    p. 283. "NH 1874 USS RIGEL (AD-13), 1922-46". Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 14 June 2020. "80-G-1017252 USS Rigel (AF-58)". Naval History...
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    Corps Forces includes: the Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa (MARFOREUR/AF) under U.S. European Command (EURCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM); the...
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    aircraft 1 evaluated as carrier based fighter Two operated from USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Ranger (CV-4). The first Meteor F.1 prototype was used for deck...
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    pp. 76–77. Puckett, Allen L. (1 April 2005). "Say 'hello' to the bad guy". af.mil. US Air Force. Archived from the original on 19 January 2012. Retrieved...
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  • Dumont. Nawi (c. 1879 – 1979) – Dahomey. Last Dahomey Amazon. Juan Fajardo Vega (1881–1990) – Cuban rebels. Later served in the 1912 Negro Rebellion and...
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  • American F-100D-45-NH, AF Ser. No. 55-2792, c/n 224-59, rescued from his dinghy by helicopter, but 1st Lt D. F. Ware rode AF Ser. No. 55-2786 to his...
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    searching for survivors through a pool of oil but found none. The escort carrier USS Solomons (CVE-67) reported losing radar contact with an aircraft at the same...
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  • all 27 crewmen are lost, 13 on one and 14 on the other. USS Abraham Lincoln, the destroyer USS Merrill (DD-976) and at least two other ships, along with...
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    2013. "Civil Aeronautics Board Aircraft Accident Report (Eastern & Bolivian AF 1 November 1949)" (PDF). dot.gov/. United States Department of Transportation...
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    from regular AF Nikon bodies. The sharpness of a remounted R-UW AF Fisheye-Nikkor 13mm was tested and found to be superior to an equivalent AF Fisheye-Nikkor...
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    Colonel Raynor Sarnac from the October 1962 Cuba Crisis to 1979. A Lockheed Vega DL-1B Special, one of only two that remain in flying condition, was used...
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    Francisco Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Norsk Sjøfartsmuseum 59°54′13.44″N 10°41′56.32″E / 59.9037333°N 10.6989778°E / 59.9037333; 10.6989778...
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    These include Madame Tussauds museums in Washington, D.C., Hollywood, Las Vegas, and New York. The Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport has an Oval...
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    this time under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance aboard his flagship USS Indianapolis, the force was designated Fifth Fleet. (It had been Third Fleet...
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