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Injured. 1. At Navy Pier 1, located within the larger Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia, at approximately 11:20 at night on March 24, 2014, Jeffery Tyrone Savage, a 35-year-old civilian truck driver, drove his 2002 Freight-liner near the pier and boarded the USS Mahan, a guided-missile destroyer. Savage was unarmed, but disarmed the sailor ...
3 × .50-caliber M2HB machine gun. 6 × Mk 38 25 mm cannons. USS Saipan (LHA-2) was a Tarawa -class amphibious assault ship, the second United States Navy ship named in honor of the World War II Battle of Saipan. Commissioned in 1977, the ship saw service until 2007 when she was decommissioned. In 2009 the ship was sold for scrapping .
Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard and abbreviated as NNSY, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, for building, remodeling and repairing the Navy's ships. It is the oldest and largest industrial facility that belongs to the U.S. Navy as well as the most comprehensive.
A memorial to the 47 sailors killed in the explosion was erected at "Iowa Point" on Norfolk Naval Station. The project was overseen by regional Naval Commander RADM Paul Moses and his public affairs staff. Each year after the accident on 19 April a memorial service is held at Iowa Point in memory of those 47 killed in the explosion . [134] [135]
USS. Guam. (LPH-9) USS Guam (LPH-9), was an Iwo Jima -class amphibious assault ship, and was laid down by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 15 November 1962; launched on 22 August 1964, sponsored by Mrs. Vaughn H. Emory Green, and commissioned on 16 January 1965. She was the third US Navy ship to carry the name, after the US Territory of Guam .
Namesake. Douglas Harold Fox was born on 26 March 1905 in Walled Lake, Michigan. He attended Dowagiac High School in Dowagiac, Michigan, prior to entering the United States Naval Academy on 8 August 1922. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 3 June 1926, but remained there for the summer course in aviation through 11 August.
Margaret Stroud looked up at Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s historic “hammerhead crane” in June 1963 as she walked through the gates toward her new job. She was 21 and excited about the future On ...
USS. Intrepid. (CV-11) USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex -class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. Commissioned in August 1943, Intrepid participated in several campaigns in the Pacific Theater of Operations ...