Wings of the Navy is a 1939 American drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring George Brent, Olivia de Havilland and John Payne. Like many of the...
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This is a list of United States Navy aircraft wings. The U.S. Navy first used the term "wing" to describe the level of command above its aircraft squadrons...
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Carrier air wing (redirect from List of United States Navy Carrier Air Wings)
S. Navy Type Wings (such as Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic), which are primarily administrative and training commands composed of squadrons of the same...
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Wings of the Navy, chap. 3 Brown, Wings of the Navy, chap. 11 Brown, Wings of the Navy, chap. 13 Brown, Wings of the Navy, chap. 4 Brown, Wings of the...
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Operation Red Wings (often incorrectly referred to as Operation Redwing or Operation Red Wing), informally referred to as the Battle of Abbas Ghar, was...
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Hawker Hurricane variants (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
Aircraft 1939 to 1945 Brown, Eric, Wings of the Navy, p112 Brown, Eric, Wings of the Navy, p109 Brown, Eric, Wings of the Navy, p114 Thetford, Owen, British...
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The United States Navy proposed to the U.S. Congress the development of a lighter-than-air station program for anti-submarine patrolling of the coast...
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Bros. and played Don Vincent in Garden of the Moon (1938). He was in Kid Nightingale (1939) and Wings of the Navy (1939). Payne supported Ann Sheridan in...
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The Wings of Eagles is a 1957 American Metrocolor film starring John Wayne, Dan Dailey and Maureen O'Hara, based on the life of Frank "Spig" Wead and...
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George Brent (category Irish emigrants to the United States)
he was reunited with Francis in Secrets of an Actress (1938). He was in the military drama Wings of the Navy (1939) with de Havilland and John Payne....
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of Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm, Naval Air Wings. A Wing designation consisted a number to differentiate each one and a simple label for the role of the...
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Marcus Luttrell (category Recipients of the Navy Cross (United States))
States Navy SEAL who received the Navy Cross and Purple Heart for his actions in June 2005 against Taliban fighters during Operation Red Wings in which...
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Matthew Axelson (category Recipients of the Navy Cross (United States))
during Operation Red Wings), holding their rifles in a defensive kneeling position. The Navy Cross citation was replicated on the memorial. On November...
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Olivia de Havilland (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
own comeuppance. In the summer of 1938, she portrayed the love interest between two U.S. Navy pilot brothers in Wings of the Navy, released in early 1939...
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In the United States Navy, officers have various ranks. Equivalency between services is by pay grade. United States Navy commissioned officer ranks have...
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Naval aviator (United States) (redirect from Wings of Gold)
receiving their wings of gold, Navy pilots report to VP-30, the P-8 Poseidon FRS, for further training in the P-8A. Marine Corps pilots report to the Lockheed...
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Matthew Axelson – Member of SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team One, killed in action during Operation Red Wings. Recipient of the Navy Cross. Harry Beal – Underwater...
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Parachutist Badge (United States) (redirect from Parachute Wings)
The Parachutist Badge, also commonly referred to as "Jump Wings", is a military badge of the United States Armed Forces. Some services, such as the Marine...
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Davis gun (category Recoilless rifles of the United States)
Davis of the United States Navy in 1910, just prior to World War I. Davis' design connected two guns back to back, with the backwards-facing gun loaded...
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The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States...
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Robert J. O'Neill (redirect from Robert O'Neill (Navy SEAL))
Navy SEAL (1996–2012), TV news contributor, and author. After participating in May 2011's Operation Neptune Spear with SEAL Team Six, O'Neill was the...
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Grumman F4F Wildcat (category World War II fighter aircraft of the United States)
Office of Naval Intelligence, 1946. Brown, Eric, CBE, DCS, AFC, RN.; William Green and Gordon Swanborough. "Grumman Wildcat". Wings of the Navy, Flying...
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use, this version still lacked the folding wings needed to allow them to be used on board some Royal Navy carriers, some of which had small aircraft elevators...
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Captain (United States O-6) (redirect from Captain (U.S. Navy))
In the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (USPHS Corps), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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operated by the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy to be fabricated entirely from metal. The Barracuda was developed as a replacement for the Fairey Albacore...
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Wings of the Navy, Flying Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War Two. London: Jane's 1980. ISBN 0-7106-0002-X Hammond, B. Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the...
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The Royal Thai Navy (Abrv: RTN, ทร.; Thai: กองทัพเรือไทย, RTGS: kong thap ruea thai) is the naval warfare force of Thailand. Established in 1906, it was...
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Douglas SBD Dauntless (category World War II dive bombers of the United States)
Green and Gordon Swanborough. "Douglas Dauntless". Wings of the Navy, Flying Allied Carrier Aircraft of World War Two. London: Jane's Publishing Company...
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of the Underworld (1939) as Jerry They Made Me a Criminal (1939) as Magee Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939) as Submarine Officer (uncredited) Wings of...
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Wings is an American sitcom television series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from April 19, 1990, to May 21, 1997, for a total of 172 episodes. The...
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