March 20, 1922: USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) nicknamed "Covered Wagon" was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, Recommissioned on this day. She was 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, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer (a device for measuring radiant heat by means of a material having a temperature-dependent electrical resistance.)
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An unusual feature of Langley was provision for a carrier pigeon house on the stern between the 5-inch guns.
World War II: On the entry of the US into World War II, Langley was anchored off Cavite, Philippines. On December 8, 1941 following the invasion of the Philippines by Japan, she departed Cavite for Balikpapan in the Dutch East Indies. In the natural state of alarm & trigger emotions (the attack on Pearl Harbor had happened the day before) 300 rounds were shot at an object in the sky before it was realized that it was the planet Venus.
As the Japanese advance continued, Langley proceeded to Australia, arriving in Darwin on 1 January 1942. She then became part of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) naval forces.
Due to unfortunate miscommunication about her escort arrangements to Java port Tjilatjap left her without escort, and the resulting confusion would soon doom the Langley. Survivors were rescued by USS Whipple and Edsall and transferred to the oiler USS Pecos, however many of Langley's crew were lost when Pecos was sunk en route to Australia by Japanese carrier aircraft.
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Out of over 630 total crewmen and Langley survivors on Pecos, 232 were rescued while more than 400 were left behind and died due to Japanese submarines in the area hindering rescue efforts. Exact casualty numbers for the doomed ships of the United States Asiatic Fleet and American-British-Dutch-Australian Command are impossible to ascertain because so many Allied warships were sunk in the Dutch East Indies campaign (at least 24 total) and many of those ships had already picked up survivors of other sunken ships and then were also sunk by the Japanese hours or days later. Absolute hellish nightmare beyond words, but it gets worse.
31 of the 33 pilots assigned to the USAAF 13th Pursuit Squadron (Provisional) being transported by Langley remained on Edsall to be brought to Tjilatjap, but were lost when she was sunk on the same day by Japanese warships while responding to the distress calls of Pecos. According to the Bureau of Naval Personnel a total of 288 U.S. Navy officers and crewmen from Langley were missing in action and later declared dead following the sinking of Langley and Pecos. Including the 31 USAAF pilots that were originally on Langley a total of 319 from Langley were killed.
This is almost cartoonish comical, but was the early origin of learning the new art of landing on a carrier.
Langley was featured in the 1929 silent film about naval aviation, The Flying Fleet. Produced with the sanction of the US Navy with "thrilling stunts". Full film with sound effects (no audible dialogue) and over the top Navy melodrama with two Navy officers as rivals for the love of the same woman (Anita Page at 18), on Archive.org. The film was the first major Hollywood production to use Naval Air Station North Island.
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Anita Page nickname: The Girl With the Most Beautiful Face in Hollywood.
MGM bought the rights to the tune "Anchors Aweigh" for its extensive use in this film. This turned out to be a very profitable move on the studio's part as it then had free use of it for all of its Navy-related films for decades, and other studios had to pay MGM big bucks to use it in their pictures.
There were no atomic bombs at Sculthorpe according to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The cover of their 1955 yearbook would indicate otherwise...
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NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. March 1998 WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR DEPLOYMENTS says the UK could have been Nuclear Armed as early as 1953!
Wow, those are tiny coffin racks!
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https://x.com/TaiwanMonitor/status/2034651695720857819
March 20th, a cursed day for submarines... in 1993 a US Navy Sturgeon-class boat USS Grayling (SSN 646) just coincidentally happened to be in the same location in the Barents Sea as Delta IV class submarine RFS Novomoskovsk (K-407) and put a little ding in the Russian SSBN. "Crazy Ivan"!!!
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March 20, 2009: USS Hartford (SSN 768) pulling into Bahrain after rolling 85° while running up under the keel of USS New Orleans (LPD-18) while at periscope depth in the Strait of Hormuz. Had to transit all the way back to the US on the surface for the $120 million repairs.
R.I.P. Chuck Norris
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Mark Twain is vomiting in his grave.
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Bill Maher has been chosen to receive the Mark Twain Prize
"They call it an alpine divorce." Have a fun weekend, drama ladies!
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‘he left me alone to test me’
What's the problem? I thought women didn't need men, according to lamestream media. What happened to "hear me roar" and "I can do anything?" My guess is this has been happening since the early days of Jeremiah Johnson and I assume on the Appalachian Trail as well and every wilderness region in between. That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
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An unusual feature of Langley was provision for a carrier pigeon house on the stern between the 5-inch guns.
World War II: On the entry of the US into World War II, Langley was anchored off Cavite, Philippines. On December 8, 1941 following the invasion of the Philippines by Japan, she departed Cavite for Balikpapan in the Dutch East Indies. In the natural state of alarm & trigger emotions (the attack on Pearl Harbor had happened the day before) 300 rounds were shot at an object in the sky before it was realized that it was the planet Venus.
As the Japanese advance continued, Langley proceeded to Australia, arriving in Darwin on 1 January 1942. She then became part of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDACOM) naval forces.
Due to unfortunate miscommunication about her escort arrangements to Java port Tjilatjap left her without escort, and the resulting confusion would soon doom the Langley. Survivors were rescued by USS Whipple and Edsall and transferred to the oiler USS Pecos, however many of Langley's crew were lost when Pecos was sunk en route to Australia by Japanese carrier aircraft.
Out of over 630 total crewmen and Langley survivors on Pecos, 232 were rescued while more than 400 were left behind and died due to Japanese submarines in the area hindering rescue efforts. Exact casualty numbers for the doomed ships of the United States Asiatic Fleet and American-British-Dutch-Australian Command are impossible to ascertain because so many Allied warships were sunk in the Dutch East Indies campaign (at least 24 total) and many of those ships had already picked up survivors of other sunken ships and then were also sunk by the Japanese hours or days later. Absolute hellish nightmare beyond words, but it gets worse.
31 of the 33 pilots assigned to the USAAF 13th Pursuit Squadron (Provisional) being transported by Langley remained on Edsall to be brought to Tjilatjap, but were lost when she was sunk on the same day by Japanese warships while responding to the distress calls of Pecos. According to the Bureau of Naval Personnel a total of 288 U.S. Navy officers and crewmen from Langley were missing in action and later declared dead following the sinking of Langley and Pecos. Including the 31 USAAF pilots that were originally on Langley a total of 319 from Langley were killed.
This is almost cartoonish comical, but was the early origin of learning the new art of landing on a carrier.
Langley was featured in the 1929 silent film about naval aviation, The Flying Fleet. Produced with the sanction of the US Navy with "thrilling stunts". Full film with sound effects (no audible dialogue) and over the top Navy melodrama with two Navy officers as rivals for the love of the same woman (Anita Page at 18), on Archive.org. The film was the first major Hollywood production to use Naval Air Station North Island.
Anita Page nickname: The Girl With the Most Beautiful Face in Hollywood.
MGM bought the rights to the tune "Anchors Aweigh" for its extensive use in this film. This turned out to be a very profitable move on the studio's part as it then had free use of it for all of its Navy-related films for decades, and other studios had to pay MGM big bucks to use it in their pictures.
There were no atomic bombs at Sculthorpe according to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The cover of their 1955 yearbook would indicate otherwise...
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC. March 1998 WORLDWIDE NUCLEAR DEPLOYMENTS says the UK could have been Nuclear Armed as early as 1953!
Wow, those are tiny coffin racks!
https://x.com/TaiwanMonitor/status/2034651695720857819
March 20th, a cursed day for submarines... in 1993 a US Navy Sturgeon-class boat USS Grayling (SSN 646) just coincidentally happened to be in the same location in the Barents Sea as Delta IV class submarine RFS Novomoskovsk (K-407) and put a little ding in the Russian SSBN. "Crazy Ivan"!!!
March 20, 2009: USS Hartford (SSN 768) pulling into Bahrain after rolling 85° while running up under the keel of USS New Orleans (LPD-18) while at periscope depth in the Strait of Hormuz. Had to transit all the way back to the US on the surface for the $120 million repairs.
R.I.P. Chuck Norris
Mark Twain is vomiting in his grave.
Bill Maher has been chosen to receive the Mark Twain Prize
"They call it an alpine divorce." Have a fun weekend, drama ladies!
‘he left me alone to test me’
What's the problem? I thought women didn't need men, according to lamestream media. What happened to "hear me roar" and "I can do anything?" My guess is this has been happening since the early days of Jeremiah Johnson and I assume on the Appalachian Trail as well and every wilderness region in between. That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell