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  2. USS Bennington (CV-20) - Wikipedia

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    Bennington aviators went after targets both at Tokyo and at Yokosuka, site of the large Japanese naval base. While their colleagues pounded Japan, pilots in Bennington ' s Combat Air Patrol (CAP) helped to protect TG 58.1 from air raids and shot down three intruders. On the negative side, her air group lost one plane to antiaircraft fire over ...

  3. William S. Cronan - Wikipedia

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    On July 21, 1905, the USS Bennington was in San Diego, California, when a boiler exploded. The combination of the explosion and the scalding steam killed a number of men outright and left others mortally wounded; the final death toll was one officer, Ensign Newman K. Perry and sixty-five men, making it one of the U.S. Navy's worst peacetime ...

  4. Oscar Frederick Nelson - Wikipedia

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    Nelson was born November 5, 1881, in Minneapolis, Minnesota and after joining the navy was stationed aboard the USS Bennington (PG-4) as a machinist's mate first class. On July 21, 1905, the USS Bennington was in San Diego, California when a boiler exploded. For his actions he received the Medal January 5, 1906. [1] [2] He was married to Anna D ...

  5. USS Bennington - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Bennington occurred on 16 August 1777. USS Bennington (PG-4), was commissioned in 1891 and took possession of Wake Island during the Spanish–American War. USS Bennington (CV-20), was an aircraft carrier of World War II and decommissioned in 1970.

  6. William Sidney Shacklette - Wikipedia

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    He served on two other ships before being transferred to the gunboat USS Bennington (PG-4). He was stationed aboard the USS Bennington as a hospital steward when on July 21, 1905, one of the USS Bennington's boilers exploded while it was in San Diego, California. Although he suffered severe third degree burns over much of his body in the ...

  7. Emil Fredericksen - Wikipedia

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    Emil Fredericksen or Fredreksen (1867–1950) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.He earned the award for rescuing injured shipmates despite hazardous conditions following a 1905 boiler explosion aboard his ship, USS Bennington (PG-4).

  8. May 1954 - Wikipedia

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    A fire on board the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Bennington off Narragansett Bay, Massachusetts, killed 103 sailors and injured many others. [47] The first tropical storm of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season formed over Florida. [48] Died: Omer Nishani, 67, Albanian politician (probable suicide) [49]

  9. John Henry Turpin - Wikipedia

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    [5] Bennington after the explosion on July 21, 1905, which killed 66. By mid-1905, Turpin had been assigned to the gunboat Bennington. When that ship was raising steam for a departure from San Diego, California, on July 21, 1905, she suffered a boiler explosion that sent men and machinery into the air and killed 66 of the 102 sailors aboard. [6]