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Sixth Fleet, though additional NATO headquarters personnel would eventually be assigned, while maintaining American control over its nuclear weapons on board U.S. aircraft carriers as mandated by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. [9] U.S. ships in Sicily, 1965. Sixth Fleet supported American land forces during Operation Blue Bat in Lebanon in 1958.
By 21 March she was at the Ulithi staging area and on 1 April she stood off Okinawa, protecting the escort carriers giving aerial support to the assault troops. For the next month she continued to operate with the carriers, switching to radar picket duty in May. Before leaving Okinawan waters on 24 June, Massey ' s guns had splashed nine kamikazes.
The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the U.S. Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). [1]
Combined Fleet, the main combatant component of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. 1st Fleet (HQ Hashira-jima, Yamaguchi) 2nd Fleet; 3rd Fleet (HQ Babeldaob, Palau) 4th Fleet (HQ Truk, Micronesia) 5th Fleet; 6th Fleet (HQ Kwajalein, Marshall Islands) Southern Expeditionary Fleet; 10th Area Fleet; Central Pacific Area Fleet
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, President Harry S. Truman, and Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher on the bridge of USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) during maneuvers off the Virginia Capes, 24 April 1946. On 21 July 1946, Roosevelt became the first American carrier to operate an all-jet aircraft under controlled ...
In April 1981 the ship was deployed to Mediterranean to meet US commitment to have two carriers there. She operated for ten consecutive weeks as an aircraft carrier, reinforcing Sixth Fleet carrier USS Saratoga. Marine Attack Squadrons 231 and 542 formed Marine Air Group 32, equipped with AV-8A planes.
USS Wright (CVL-49/AVT-7) was a Saipan-class light aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy, later converted to the command ship CC-2.It is the second ship named "Wright". The first Wright (AV-1) was named for Orville Wright; the second honored both Wright brothers: Orville and Wilbur.
Randolph was decommissioned on 13 February 1969 at Boston Navy Yard and laid up in the reserve fleet at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. [2] Randolph was stricken from the Navy List on 1 June 1973. [2] In May 1975, the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service sold the ship to Union Minerals & Alloys for $1,560,000.