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  2. USS Halibut (SSGN-587) - Wikipedia

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    Halibut firing a Regulus missile next to the aircraft carrier Lexington, 25 March 1960. Halibut was originally designed under project SCB 137 as a diesel-electric submarine, but was completed with nuclear power under SCB 137A. She was the first submarine initially designed to launch guided missiles.

  3. List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. List of aircraft carrier classes of the United States Navy

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    On November 14, 1910, pilot Eugene Burton Ely took off in a Curtiss plane from the bow of Birmingham and later landed a Curtiss Model D on Pennsylvania on January 18, 1911. In fiscal year (FY) 1920, Congress approved a conversion of collier Jupiter into a ship designed for launching and recovering of airplanes at sea—the first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy.

  5. USS Halibut (SS-232) - Wikipedia

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    Halibut also attacked the escort carrier Un'yō [7] on 10 July while escorting the same convoy, and finally returned to Midway Island on 28 July 1943. No tonnage credit was given in the contemporaneous record or the postwar JANAC accounting, however. [8] (Credit for the damage to the carrier was awarded to USS Steelhead attacking later that ...

  6. Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier - Wikipedia

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    The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire ten of these ships in order to replace current carriers on a one-for-one basis, starting with the lead ship of her class, Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), replacing Enterprise (CVN-65), and later the Nimitz-class carriers.

  7. USS Ronald Reagan leaves its Japan home port after ... - AOL

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    USS Ronald Reagan was the only American aircraft carrier deployed as a flagship of the Carrier Strike Group 5 under the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet, to a home port outside the U.S.

  8. Category:Ships of the Aleutian Islands campaign - Wikipedia

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    USS Halibut (SS-232) USS Harris; Japanese destroyer Hatsuharu (1933) Japanese destroyer Hatsushimo (1933) Heian Maru (1930) USCGC Hemlock; USS Heywood; Japanese destroyer Hibiki (1932) Japanese destroyer Hokaze; USS Honolulu (CL-48) USS Hughes; USS Hull (DD-350) USS Humphreys; USS Hydrographer (AGS-2)

  9. Operation Ivy Bells - Wikipedia

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    US Navy Divers working from Halibut found the cable in 400 feet (120 m) of water and installed a 20-foot (6.1 m) long device, which wrapped around the cable without piercing its casing and recorded all communications made over it. The large recording device was designed to detach if the cable was raised for repair.