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    USS Thomas F. Nickel (DE-587) was a Rudderow-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and from 1948 to 1958. She...
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    landing ship USS Oak Hill, escorted by USS Thomas F. Nickel en route from Okinawa to Leyte. At 18:26, Oak Hill sighted a periscope, and Nickel attacked at...
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    escaped. On 12 August a Kaiten was launched against USS Oak Hill and her escort USS Thomas F. Nickel. The Kaiten passed under the destroyer, then surfaced...
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    USRC Thomas Corwin (1876) USS Thomas E. Fraser (DD-736/DM-24/MMD-24) USS Thomas F. Nickel (DE-587) USS Thomas Freeborn (1861) USNS Thomas G. Thompson (T-AGOR-9/IX-517...
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  • Hunter on 28 July 1945, possibly by Kaiten Sank USS Indianapolis on 30 July 1945 Damaged USS Thomas F. Nickel on 12 August 1945 by Kaiten (?) Converted to...
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    Battleship Photo Archive NHHC The Destruction of USS Maine. Wegner, pp. 8–10. Wegner, p. 11. Allen, Thomas B. (February 1998). "Remember The Maine?". National...
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    used to identify the wrecks of the destroyers USS Johnston at a depth of 6,469 m (21,224 ft), and USS Samuel B. Roberts at 6,865 m (22,523 ft), in the...
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  • (1826–1924) – California Republic Militia. Owen Thomas Edgar (1831–1929) – U.S. Navy. Served on USS Potomac and USS Allegheny. William Fitzhugh Buckner (1828–1929) –...
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    depicted on the U.S. nickel since 1938. The 1994 Thomas Jefferson 250th Anniversary silver dollar Library resources about Thomas Jefferson Online books...
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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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    battleship USS Nevada, where he was promoted in June 1933 to lieutenant (junior grade). In March 1934, he briefly transferred to the destroyer USS Rathburne...
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    and fighting capability but this did not materialize. USS North Carolina, renamed Charlotte, and USS Montana, renamed Missoula, were scrapped under the terms...
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    dollar mintage figures Cultural depictions of John F. Kennedy Coins of the United States dollar Big Nickel, a coin monument in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada...
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    2012-01-26. "USS Mount Whitney Set for Norfolk Return". Military.com. Retrieved 2012-12-15. "United States Marine Corp Biography: Major General Timothy F. Ghormley"...
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    A-4s, plus another 46 that were transferred from U.S. units in Operation Nickel Grass to compensate for large losses during the Yom Kippur War. The first...
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    second-largest producer of dry-cell batteries in the US. NASA used solar-charged, nickel-zinc Exide batteries on all of the Apollo program missions. In 1967 The...
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    Continued success for BPO, Nickel City Opera". buffalonews.com. Retrieved January 15, 2017. Frank Parlato (June 6, 2016). "Shot! Nickel City Opera Lays Its Future...
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    Kirk Douglas (redirect from USS PC-1139)
    became a ragman, buying old rags, pieces of metal, and junk for pennies, nickels, and dimes ... Even on Eagle Street, in the poorest section of town, where...
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    II as convoy escorts and anti-submarine warfare ships. The lead ship was USS Rudderow which was launched on 14 October 1943. The ships had General Electric...
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    within the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) during a fleet exercise in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico...
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    it was signed by nearly 60 people, including Purnell, Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell, and Parsons. The acronym "JANCFU" was stenciled on the bomb's...
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    Senator Jacob K. Javits offered "...large sums for evacuation, but not one nickel for military aid". President Thieu resigned on April 21, 1975, publicly...
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    remaining impartial in a fierce rivalry that emerged between cabinet members Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. During the French Revolution, he proclaimed...
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    improving as prices are increasing. These include iron, uranium, aluminium, nickel, platinum, tungsten, titanium, and copper. The state company Nunamineral...
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    know what I am doing here with my collection of papers. It isn't worth a nickel to two guys like you or me but to a collector it is worth a fortune. It...
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  • the entire crew had access to a gymnasium. The outer hull, made of high-nickel, high-chromium stainless steel 8.5 mm (0.33 in) thick, had exceptionally...
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    Index of Washington, D.C.–related articles Outline of Washington, D.C. USS District of Columbia By 1790, the Southern states had largely repaid their...
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    Deposits of coal, hydrocarbons, iron ore, platinum, copper, chromium, nickel, gold, and other minerals have been found in Antarctica, but not in large...
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    was assigned to a submarine chaser and then to a minesweeper called the USS Incredible, on which he worked as a sonarman. The ship initially patrolled...
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    dollars began to be hoarded. The nickel is the only coin whose size and composition (5 grams, 75% copper, and 25% nickel) is still in use from 1865 to today...
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