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Carrier pigeons played a role in naval communications from the late 1880s through World War II. The Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, was the first command in the Navy to breed and train carrier pigeons. A Naval Academy French professor, Henri Marion, built an experimental pigeon loft in an academy boathouse in 1891. He received the pigeons from the Army’s Signal Corps, which had built ...
Carrier Pigeons In the last year of World War I, naval aviation recognized carrier pigeons for service and were used to send messages when radio use was impossible. These birds were carried with aviators and dispatched when a pilot splashed (crashed). From November 1917 to October 1918, the pigeons flew 10,995 flights and there were 2,500 birds in U.S. Navy flock in the states and 900 in ...
Instructions on Reception, Care and Training of Homing Pigeons in Newly Installed Lofts at U.S. Navy Air Bases (1) Men in charge of, or detailed to, homing pigeon lofts in process of construction and stocking with young birds, should see that the loft is scrupulously clean and prepared for the arrival of the birds. Close communication should be had with the Paymaster, to ascertain the arrival ...
18 April 1942. 80-G-41196. An Army Air Force B-25B bomber takes off from Hornet at the start of the raid, 18 April 1942. Conceived in January 1942 in the wake of the devastating Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the “joint Army-Navy bombing project” was to bomb Japanese industrial centers, to inflict both “material and ...
Releasing the Carrier Pigeons from seaplane in the river, U.S. Naval Air Station, Anacostia, Washington, D.C. February 12, 1919.
On 1 August, the Essex-class fleet carrier Philippine Sea (CV-47) arrived at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, becoming the third carrier (and second U.S. carrier) to join TF 77. Rear Admiral Edward C. Ewen, who had been awarded a Navy Cross in command of the first “night carrier,” Independence (CVL-22), in 1944, broke his flag on Philippine Sea .
Location of Archival Materials. Author Name. Place of Event. Recipient Name. UNITED STATES NAVY AT WAR. Final Official Report to the Secretary of the Navy. Covering the period of March 1, 1945, to October 1, 1945 By FLEET ADMIRAL ERNEST J. KING. Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, and Chief of Naval Operations.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., son of the successful publisher and editor of the New York "Herald", was born in New York City on 10 May 1841. Educated in the United States and France, he later worked for his father's newspaper. Young Bennett was an accomplished yachtsman and was briefly a U.S. Revenue Marine Third Lieutenant during the Civil War ...
In some instances, such as calling your morning coffee a “cuppa Joe,” Navy terminology has become part of common slang ─ but in other cases speaking like a Sailor can sound more like encrypted code. Crack the code and learn the origins of the language of the U.S. Navy by exploring the links, below. Nautical Terms and Phrases ─ Their ...
Introduction. This listing of enlisted ratings and apprenticeships in the U.S. Navy from 1775 to 1969 has been compiled primarily for use by members of the Permanent Board for Control of the Enlisted Rating Structure which has the responsibility for conducting a continuing study of the enlisted rating structure, and for reviewing and making appropriate recommendations concerning proposals for ...