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USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3), and also the US Navy's first turbo-electric-powered ship. Langley was named after Samuel Langley, an American aviation pioneer. She was the sole member of her class to be rebuilt as a carrier.
The largest World War II ships were named after California Missions: USS Mission Buenaventura, etc. The ships of the two most recent classes were named for noted ship designers and builders and civil rights leaders: USS Henry J. Kaiser, John Lewis, etc., with a handful of traditional river names included.
USS Langley (CVL-27) was an Independence-class light aircraft carrier that served the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947, and French Navy as La Fayette from 1951 to ...
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Task Force is a 1949 American war film filmed in black-and-white with some Technicolor sequences about the development of U.S. aircraft carriers from USS Langley (CV-1) to USS Franklin (CV-13). Although Robert Montgomery was originally considered for the leading role, [ 3 ] the film stars Gary Cooper , Jane Wyatt , Walter Brennan , Wayne Morris ...
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Bob Cole, 100, stands near a model of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), on which Cole served, on the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the ship, while visiting the Veterans Memorial Museum ...
USS Jupiter was a military ship converted to an aircraft carrier between 1920 and 1922 and was recommissioned as USS Langley. Langley was the first American aircraft carrier and was vital in developing United States naval aviation capabilities. She was converted again between 1936 and 1937 as a seaplane tender and redesignated as AV-3.