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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 ...
USS Bennington (Gunboat No. 4/PG-43) was a member of the Yorktown class of steel-hulled, twin-screw gunboats in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the first U.S. Navy ship named in honor of the town of Bennington, Vermont , site of the Battle of Bennington in the American Revolutionary War .
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.
Five Essex-class units at Long Beach Navy Yard in 1966; Bennington (CVS-20), Yorktown (CVS-10) and Hornet (CVS-12) are configured as ASW carriers; Bon Homme Richard (angled deck; with bridle catchers) is an attack carrier (CVA); Valley Forge (axial flight deck) is serving as an LPH; note the helicopter landing circles on her deck.
Boers was born March 10, 1884, in Cincinnati, Ohio and after joining the navy from Kentucky was stationed aboard the USS Bennington (PG-4) as a seaman. On July 21, 1905, the USS Bennington was in San Diego, California when a boiler exploded. For his actions received the Medal January 5, 1906. [1] [2] [3] He died April 2, 1929.
The USS Bennington Monument is a 60-foot (18 m) granite obelisk in the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, San Diego, California, United States. It serves as a memorial to the crew of the USS Bennington (PG-4) , a gunboat of the United States Navy , whose boiler exploded on the morning of 21 July 1905, in San Diego Bay . [ 1 ]
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).
Between February 1891 and May 1893, he served in the cruiser USS Newark (C-1). On July 1, 1892, he was promoted to lieutenant (junior grade). He took a leave of absence because of illness from May to July 1893 and then returned to sea in USS Bennington (Gunboat No. 4).