what was the name of the first united states aircraft carrier?
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On March 20th, at Norfolk, Virginia, the USS Langely was commissioned as the first Naval Aircraft Carrier. The carrier was a converted coaler.
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Nov 29,1890 played at West Point. Navy won 24-0
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, planes and midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy issued a surprise attack on the US under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. This attack brought the United States into World War II. At 6:00 a.m. on December 7th the six Japanese carriers launched a first wave of 181 planes composed of torpedo bombers, dive-bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters. The Japanese hit American ships and military installations at 7:53 a.m.. They attacked military airfields at the same time they hit the fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. Overall, twenty-one ships of the U.S. Pacific fleet were damaged and the death toll reached 2,400.
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Bradley troop carrier
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I didn't think the UK was gonna have carriers anymore.  A link to that would be cool.\n\nFound this\n\nhttp://www.naval-technology.com/projects/cvf/
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Emma Susan (Daugherty) Banister was the first known woman sherrif in US. Alaska is not known.
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Dreadnaught (the early unstoppable U.S. style iron battleships).
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Many of the first were Navy and Marine Corps pilots, so I would guess Annapolis.  After that... Starfleet Academy.
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"John Sidney McCain, Sr. (9 August 1884 – 6 September 1945) was an Admiral in the United States Navy, notable as a commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force in World War II. His son John S. McCain, Jr. was also an admiral (the only father-son pair of full admirals in US history), and his grandson John McCain III is a U.S. Senator from Arizona was also a Navy Captain.\n\nMcCain was born in Teoc, Mississippi, and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1906 after attending a few years at the University of Mississippi. His first assignments were on ships of the Asiatic Squadron. During the American occupation of Veracruz in the Mexican Revolution he served in San Diego, and remained on the ship during 1918 while she performed Atlantic escort duty.\n\nIn the years between the world wars, McCain served in many ships, including Maryland (BB-46), New Mexico (BB-40), and Nitro (AE-2). His first command was the Sirius (AK-18). In 1936, at the age of 51, he was designated a Naval Aviator, and from 1937 to 1939 he commanded the aircraft carrier Ranger (CV-4), contributing much to the development of carrier tactics for the war to come. For the first year of World War II he served as Commander of Air Forces for Western Sea Frontier and the South Pacific Force. In October 1942 McCain became Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics and in August 1943 rose to the rank of Vice Admiral as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air).\n\nIn 1944 he returned to the Pacific Theater, succeeding Marc Mitscher as commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force, which for over a year operated almost continuously in support of the great amphibious operations. McCain's exceedingly skillful tactics protecting Canberra (CA-70) and Houston (CL-81) in October 1944 earned him the Navy Cross, and the daring forays of his mobile force had much to do with the eventual victory.\n\nVice Admiral McCain died in September 1945, just after arriving back in the United States, and was posthumously appointed Admiral effective that date. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. For his outstanding performance as an air planner and carrier task force commander he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal with two Gold Stars; Secretary James Forrestal commented: "He was a fighting man all the way through."\n\nUSS John S. McCain (DDG-56) was named for him and his son."
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On 15 March 1952, the Air Force and Navy released Air Force-Navy Aeronautical (ANA) Bulletin 420, defining the Type Designation System for Aeronautical Equipment. The system used arbitrary two-letter codes and a model number. The first letter was always an M (indicating Military Aeronautical Equipment). Examples for designations are "MA-3 Fire Control System" and "MB-2 Aircraft Towing Tractor". The below link will get you started into the mil-specs related to designations. \nJust scratching the surface:\nM - Military Equipment\nJ - Munitions <carrier>\n1 - First series
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The USS Missouri (1944-1998) took 3 years for completion.\n\nNotable dates:\nLaid down:6 January 1941\nLaunched:29 January 1944\n\nThe USS Iowa took less time:\nLaid down:27 June 1940\nLaunched:27 August 1942
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The term "united States of America" was first used officially in the Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776. On November 15, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first of which stated "The Stile [sic] of this Confederacy shall be 'The United States of America.'" The name was originally proposed by Thomas Paine.
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The first U.S. manned space mission:\n\nMission: Mercury 3 (first manned flight)\nSpacecraft Name: Freedom 7\nOccupant: Alan Shepard\nDate: 5/5/1961
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The first shuttle built was Enterprise. It flew, but only in the atmosphere. Enterprise existed only to test the basic design and did not have the ceramic heat shield tiles; I remember watching its flights in the 1970's. Then came Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, and Atlantis. That was supposed to be "the fleet". After the loss of Challenger, Endeavor was constructed; it's the newest and "most advanced" of the fleet. The loss of Columbia cut the fleet down to three: Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor. It's a very expensive machine to operate, so it's only a matter of time before the fleet is retired.
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The Cincinnati Enquirer\n\nIt took a hundred years, but this week, Congress got it right - Ohio, not North Carolina, is the birthplace of aviation.\n\nThe U.S. House voted 378-3 for a resolution naming Dayton, Ohio - home of Wilbur and Orville Wright - as the place where aviation was born. The measure passed the Senate late Thursday on a voice vote.\n\nDaytonians have known that for nearly a century, but North Carolinians have been making the claim that powered flight was born on an Outer Banks hill called Kitty Hawk, where the Wright brothers experimented and made their first flight on Dec. 17, 1903.\n\nNaturally, the three votes against the House resolution were cast by North Carolina congressmen.\n\nOhio - where the phrase "Birthplace of Aviation" is etched on license plates - was where flight was born, Buckeyes claim, because the Wright brothers made their plans and constructed their aircraft in their bicycle shop on Dayton's West Side.\n\nOhio is also the state that has produced the most astronauts, 24 in all, including John Glenn and Neil Armstrong.
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Boeing's first large aviation contract, secured in 1919, was for the construction of 200 Thomas-Morse MB-3 fighters for the U.S. Army Air Service. Known as the MB-3A, Boeing's version incorporated a number of improvements over the Thomas-Morse original, including redesigned tail surfaces, improved radiators and a welded steel-tube fuselage in place of the original's wooden structure. As a result of the quality of the MB-3A, Boeing went on to become one of the giants of the aviation industry while Thomas-Morse faded into obscurity
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I think it's United States Ship