USS Fairfax (DD-93) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later transferred for World War II service first to the...
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USS Fairfax County (LST-1193) was the fifteenth of twenty Newport-class tank landing ships of the United States Navy (USN) which replaced the traditional...
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List of Wickes-class destroyers (section USS Fairfax (HMS Richmond) — (later Soviet Zhivuchiy "Tenacious").)
Launched: 15 December 1917 (List) Operator: United States Navy (as USS Fairfax) Commissioned: 6 April 1918 (List) Decommissioned: 26 November 1940 (List)...
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launch that was ferrying him out to his flagship, the gunnery training ship USS Wyoming (AG-17), in the harbor of Portland, Maine. Lee was buried in Arlington...
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launching. USS LST-1 USS LST-2 USS LST-3 USS LST-4 USS LST-5 USS LST-6 USS LST-7 USS LST-8 USS LST-9 USS LST-10 — converted to USS Achelous (ARL-1) USS LST-11...
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probably condemned at Mauritius in 1826. HMS Richmond (G88) was previously USS Fairfax (DD-93), transferred from the US Navy as part of the 1940 Destroyers...
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served on the USS Saratoga (CV-3), USS Chicago (CA-29), USS Canopus (AS-9), USS Fairfax (DD-93), and the submarines USS S-37 (SS-142) and USS R-5 (SS-82)...
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division officer aboard the cruiser USS Yorktown and the tank landing ship USS Fairfax County. Following his departure from Cole, he received a series of desk...
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John's Church. Admiral Fairfax died in 1894. Biography portal American Civil War portal In 1917 the Wickes-class destroyer USS Fairfax (DD-93) was named in...
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the United States Navy (USN) as the Newport-class tank landing ship USS Fairfax County (LST-1193), the ship was decommissioned in 1994 and sold to the...
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Newmarket. Broken up in 1945. 09 USS Ringgold (DD-89) Wickes 1918 To Britain. Renamed HMS Newark. Broken up in 1947. 10 USS Fairfax (DD-93) Wickes 1917 To Britain...
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One of the Town-class ships achieved lasting fame: HMS Campbeltown (ex-USS Buchanan). In the Commando raid Operation Chariot, Campbeltown, fitted with...
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List of United States Navy ships: D–F (redirect from USS Dubhe (ID-2562))
USS Fair (DE-35) USS Fair American (1812) USS Fairfax (DD-93) USS Fairfax County (LST-1193) USS Fairfield (1828, AK-178) USS Fairmont (ID-2429) USS Fairplay...
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1917 USS Fairfax – destroyer – (Destroyers for Bases Agreement) 1917 USS Taylor – destroyer 1918 USS Boggs – destroyer – (World War II) 1918 USS Kilty...
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1939–1947 HMAS Manoora Landing ship Kanimbla 1994–2011 From US Navy, ex-USS Fairfax County HMAS Marguerite Sloop Arabis 1919–1929 ex-HMS Marguerite from...
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in charge of the Navy's Radio Division. In 1917-1918 he commanded the Fairfax, for which he was awarded the Navy Cross for distinguished service. In...
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August, in a convoy escorted by the armored cruiser USS Huntington and the destroyers USS Fairfax (DD-93) and Hull, Pastores spotted what she took to...
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USS Canberra (LCS-30) is an Independence-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the second US ship to be named Canberra, after the...
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Karl O. Thomas (category People from Fairfax, Virginia)
served on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), USS George Washington (CVN-73), U.S. 6th Fleet Command Ship, USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20), USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)...
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The first USS West Virginia (ACR-5/CA-5), also referred to as "Armored Cruiser No. 5", and later renamed Huntington, was a United States Navy Pennsylvania-class...
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commander of USS Boston (CA-69) (1959–1963). After retirement in 1963 Enright worked at Northrop on the OMEGA Navigation System. He died in Fairfax, Virginia...
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USS George Washington (CVN-73) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the sixth carrier in the Nimitz class and the fourth US Navy...
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2016. "USS FAIRFAX DD-93 - Commanding Officers". navsource.org. NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive Websites. Retrieved June 19, 2018. "USS HERBERT...
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World War II, advancing to the rank of corporal. He was stationed on the USS Fairfax, but that destroyer was decommissioned to become the British Royal Navy...
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[citation needed] 5 December Royal Navy Richmond Town-class destroyer Ex-USS Fairfax [citation needed] 11 December Kriegsmarine U-147 Type IID submarine...
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Oakton, Virginia (category Census-designated places in Fairfax County, Virginia)
Oakton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 36,732 at the 2020 census. Located in Northern...
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Lawrence Fairfax Reifsnider (November 26, 1887 – May 14, 1956) was an American football player and a vice admiral in the United States Navy. A native...
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Ex-HMS Richmond and USS Fairfax August 6 United States Navy USS Bennington Essex-class aircraft carrier September 15 United States Navy USS Shangri-La Essex-class...
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USS Sampson (DDG-102) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Funding for the Flight IIA (5"/62, one 20mm CIWS variant) ship was...
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Gulf of Tonkin incident (redirect from USS Maddox incident)
impression that an attack had been carried out. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO...
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