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2. List of Allied warships in the Normandy landings - Wikipedia

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   HMS Danae. HMS Diadem. ORP Dragon (Polish, damaged in July and then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater) HMS Emerald. HMS Enterprise. Georges Leygues ( Free French) HMS Glasgow. HMS Mauritius (Flagship of Rear Admiral Patterson) Montcalm ( Free French, Flagship of Rear Admiral Jaujard)

3. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) - Wikipedia

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   Long Beach. (CGN-9) A 423 ft (129 m) section of the hull (propulsion block) remain at PSNS as of May 2018. USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy and the world's first nuclear-powered surface combatant. [ 3] She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Long Beach ...

4. USS Antietam (CG-54) - Wikipedia

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   USS. Antietam. (CG-54) 2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters. USS Antietam (CG-54) is a Ticonderoga -class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. Antietam was named for the site of the 1862 Battle of Antietam, Maryland, between Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee and Union forces under Major General George McClellan ...

5. United States Navy reserve fleets - Wikipedia

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   The James River Reserve Fleet consists of a small number of decommissioned U.S. Navy auxiliaries and warships anchored in Virginia 's James River near Newport News . The fleet originally comprised approximately 60 ships, most of which were gradually towed away for scrapping. From 2012 to 2016, among its few remaining vessels was MV Freedom Star ...

6. List of battlecruisers of the United States - Wikipedia

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   The Alaska -class cruisers were six very large cruisers ordered on 9 September 1940. [17] They were known, popularly and by some historians, as "battlecruisers", [18][19] although the Navy and at least one prominent historian [17] discouraged describing them as such and gave them the hull symbol for large cruisers (CB). All were named after ...

7. Omaha Beach - Wikipedia

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   Captain Richard Merrill, 2nd Ranger Battalion. Of the nine companies landing in the first wave, only Company A of the 116th RCT at Dog Green and the Rangers to their right landed where intended. E/116, aiming for Easy Green, ended up scattered across the two beaches of the 16th RCT area. G/116, aiming for Dog White, opened up a 1,000-yard (900 m) gap between themselves and A/116 to their right ...