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Continental Navy Created
Esek Hokpins Commands Squadron -
U.S. Navy Established
George Washington -
Office of Naval Intelligence
Office of Naval Intelligence Created -
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Grace Hopper
First programmers of Harvoard Mark I computer
Cobol language
Debugging term coined -
Great White Fleet
Round the world cruise to show the flag doemostrating strength of U.S. Navy by Teddy Roosevelt. -
Osmond Ingram Dies on USS CASSIN DD 43
DD 255 named after him -
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On the Roof Gang
176 enlised radio operators were specially traned to intercept and analyze foreign radio communications. -
Purple Code
Code broken by US Army Signal Specialists.
LT Raven discovered Japnense had divided month into three 10 day periods. -
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Battle of Coral Sea
World's first carrier verses carrier battle; saved Austrialia from invasion -
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Battle of Midway
US Naval Intelligence cryptologist broke JN25 code. This enabled US victory in which 4 Japenese carriers were lost and USS Yorktown was lost -
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Guadalcanal
Five Sullivan Brothers died onboard USS Juneau and 700 others were lost, USMC pushed Japanese off island despite lack of numbers lessen danger of attack on Australia -
Battle of Normandy
Largest Apmhibious operation in history -
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
One of the largest naval battles in history cutting off Japanese from supplies from the south -
Inchon
Korean amphibous invasion that resulted in a decisive vitory for UN. Cut North Korean army off via Inchon a strategic port with a nearby airport. -
Mercury 3
Commander Alan Shepard participated in the first U.S. Manned space flight -
Gemini 3
LCDR John Young was part of the first U.S. two man space mission completing 3 Earth orbits. -
USS Liberty
Navy technical research ship attacked by Israeli fighter planes by torpedo boats killing 34 crew members and wounding 174 others. -
USS Pueblo
Captured while intercpting Soviet signals. Poor EDP resulted in small percentage of classified material destroyed. -
EC121
Recon plane shot down by North Koreans resulting in death of 31 Americans. -
Apollo 11
Neil Armostrong particpated in the space flight that landed first humans on the moon. -
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Apollo 17
Eugen Cernan and Ron Evans particpated in 7tg and final lunar mission. -
IS Rate Created
PT and YN 2505- Intelligence Clerks merged to make IS -
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STS-1
John Young and Robert Crippen particpated in the first orbital test flight of Space shuttle -
USS Stark
Exocet antiship missiles fired from and Iraqi F-1 plan that was failed to be detected by EW planes. 37 Sailors were killed and 21 injured. -
Core Vaules
Adopted by Admiral Frank Kelso following Tailhook -
Sailors Creed
Admiral Kelso -
EP-3 Incident
Mid air collision between US Navy and China forcing EP-3 down. 24 crewmembers were detained until April 11. -
WTC Attack
These ONI members lost their lives:
CDR Shanower
LCDR Tolber
LT Pankik
LT Pontell
IT1 Cooper
Angie Houtz
Gerard Moran
Brady Howell