USS Spectacle (AM-305) was a steel-hulled Admirable class minesweeper built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. A trained crew boarded the new vessel...
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(DD-207) USS Spectacle (AM-305) USS St. George (AV-16) USS St. Lo (CVE-63) 1943 Battle of Leyte Gulf, the first major warship sunk by a kamikaze attack USS St...
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(DD-355) USN, USS Spectacle (AM-305) Bureau of Ships Journal, Volume 1, May 1953, page 4. rootsweb.com, Wayne Loyd Chute navsource, USS ARD-1 Bureau of...
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USS Scurry (AM-304) USS Spectacle (AM-305) USS Specter (AM-306) USS Staunch (AM-307) USS Strategy (AM-308) USS Strength (AM-309) USS Success (AM-310) USS Superior (AM-311)...
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submarine U-305, a Type-VIIC U-boat USS Skate (SS-305), a Balao-class submarine USS Spectacle (AM-305), an Admirable-class minesweeper USS Thompson (DD-305), a...
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USS Signet (AM-302) USS Skirmish (AM-303) USS Scurry (AM-304) USS Spectacle (AM-305) USS Specter (AM-306) USS Staunch (AM-307) USS Strategy (AM-308) USS Strength (AM-309)...
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List of United States Navy ships: S (redirect from USS Somerset (1917))
T-JHSV-1/T-EPF-1) USS Spectacle (AM-305) USS Specter (AM-306/MSF-306) USS Spector (AM-306) USS Speed (AM-116/MSF-116) USS Speedway (SP-407) USS Speedwell (1865) USS Spence...
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indicate that USS LST-447 sank on April 7, 1945, following a kamikaze attack. USS LST-472 was scuttled by destroyer USS Hall (DD-583) USS LST-534 was deemed...
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her sinking LSM-135 was picking up survivors from the minesweeper Spectacle (AM-305) when it also was hit by kamikaze attack and burst into flames. The...
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[turning] her deck away from us, as though to hide from our sight the awful spectacle ... Then, with the deadened noise of the bursting of her last few gallant...
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fearing the fate of American interests in Cuba from the war, the cruiser USS Maine was dispatched to protect them. Less than a month later, the cruiser...
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as follows: USS Ajax (relief, callsign BD) USS Connecticut (flagship, callsign DC, Shoemaker system, wavelength 425 metres, power 3 kW) USS Culgoa (auxiliary...
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involved in two controversial actions: On 31 October 1941, she sank the USS Reuben James, the first US Navy warship to be lost in World War II; this...
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Peterson, 1970, ch.8 [e-book]. Yarbrough, 2006, p. xx. Meacham, 2012, p. 305. Bernstein, 2003, pp. 117–118. Elkins, 1994, p. 566. Chernow, 2004, p. 550...
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Terrorism (section Media spectacle)
symbols and civilians (in this case as hostages) to generate a mass media spectacle. Zehdi Labib Terzi made a public statement about this in 1976: "The first...
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She frequently fought off air attacks. On 25 May, while bringing Spectacle (AM-305) into Ie Shima, she fired on kamikazes. Three days later, she fired...
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international observers were allowed to attend, making the tests an international spectacle. Following a domestic debate over the peacetime management of the nuclear...
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30, 1892, Ephraim Grizzard, an African-American man, was lynched in a spectacle murder in front of a European-American mob of 10,000 in Nashville. He...
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and thus to the pole. This theory proved illusory; the expedition's ship, USS Jeannette and its crew of thirty-three men, was trapped by ice and drifted...
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behind the scenes to watch the filming of a big-screen IMAX/Omnimax space spectacle. Astronauts operate the cameras on location aboard the Space Shuttle....
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station that collapsed when it was rushed by a crowd. I witnessed the spectacle of a totally spontaneous revolution ... [T]hat experience led me to identify...
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exaggerated sensational stories about atrocities in Cuba and the sinking of the USS Maine to boost circulation. Hearst falsely claimed that he had started the...
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(July–September 2002). "Cutting Through the Fog: Demystifying the Summer Spectacle". Bay Nature. "NOAA Climate Data". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
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by the Boston Pops as well as a turnaround cruise in Boston Harbor by the USS Constitution, are popular events. The New England Summer Nationals, an auto...
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(July–September 2002). "Cutting Through the Fog: Demystifying the Summer Spectacle". Bay Nature. Archived from the original on June 22, 2012. Retrieved September...
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1964); Erich Topp, German naval officer, commander of U-boat U-552 that sank USS Reuben James, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, in Hanover...
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Tanager Expedition began with the departure from Honolulu of the minesweeper USS Tanager to survey and catalog the animals, plants and archaeological sites...
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