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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)...
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  • USS Langley may refer to: Ships: USS Langley (CV-1), the first aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, converted from the collier Jupiter in 1922,...
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    into the carrier, which later would be named USS Langley (CV-1). Later in 1919, after the battleship USS Texas (BB-35) experimented successfully with...
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    (2010). U.S.S. Cyclops. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, Inc. Archived 9 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine ISBN 0-7884-5186-3 "USS Langley (CV-1)". Dictionary...
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    Langley was named for Samuel Pierpont Langley, American scientist and aviation pioneer. She carried on the name and tradition of USS Langley (CV-1),...
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    the U.S. Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3)....
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    Bankstown Airport were ordered to fly to Perth to be loaded on the USS Langley (CV-1), the US's first aircraft carrier. The planes landed on Maylands airfield...
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    was also awarded the Croix de Guerre. In 1922 he was attached to USS Langley (CV-1), the first American aircraft carrier, in connection with fitting...
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    Mount Langley in the Sierra Nevada USS Langley (CV-1) USS Langley (DE‑131), laid down 10 July 1942 and renamed Hammann on 1 August 1942 USS Langley (CVL-27)...
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  • 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...
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    naval aviator in the United States Navy flying from the USS Langley (CV-1) and USS Lexington (CV-2). These were the first two aircraft carriers of the U...
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    assigned to USS Arkansas (BB-33) in July and then transferred to USS Columbia (AG-9) in December. In December 1922, he was assigned to USS Langley (CV-1). In...
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    United States Navy did not follow suit until 1920, when the conversion of USS Langley, an experimental ship which did not count against America's carrier tonnage...
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    USS Ranger (CV-4) was an interwar United States Navy aircraft carrier, the only ship of its class. As a Treaty ship, Ranger was the first U.S. vessel to...
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    into the Navy's first aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1). He subsequently commanded Langley and USS Saratoga (CV-3), and various air squadrons prior to...
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    for the United States Navy (USN) during the 1920s, the USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3). The ships were built on hulls originally laid down...
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  • carrier Nimitz-class Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) Aircraft carrier USS Langley (CV-1) Aircraft carrier USS Ranger Aircraft carrier Weser Aircraft...
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  • (AV, CV, CVL and CVA), the Navy's first carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), was converted from a collier, while carriers USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3)...
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    on 28 January 1911, and commissioned its first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), in 1922. United States naval aviation fully came of age in World...
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    USS Bonita (SS-165) USS Langley (CV-1) USS Long Island (CVE-1) USS Sangamon (CVE-26) USS Suwannee (CVE-27) USS Chenango (CVE-28) USS Santee (CVE-29) USS Charger (CVE-30)...
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  • the aircraft carrier (CV) from which they operated. VF-3 for example belonged to the Saratoga's Air Group as USS Saratoga was CV 3. When the ship named...
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  • battleships, USS New York (BB-34) and USS Oklahoma (BB-37) simulated aircraft carriers modeled after the under-construction USS Langley (CV-1). A single...
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    USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during the 1920s...
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  • – The United States Navy commissions its first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), a converted collier. March 22 – A chartered seaplane from Miami...
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  • in both World Wars. USS Langley (CV-1) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter. She was also...
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  • which they were assigned: CV 2, CV 3, CV 4 and CV 5 (USS Yorktown (CV 5) was commissioned on 30 Sep 1937). USS Langley (CV 1) had ceased operating as an...
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    USS Canopus (AS-9) - lost USS Otus (AS-20) USS Langley (CV-1) - lost USS Childs (AVD-1) USS Heron (AVP-2) Lanikai (converted yacht) USS Pecos (AO-6) - lost...
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    in Torpedo Squadron 2 (VT-2) "Doer Birds" of the experimental carrier Langley. He commanded the Cruiser Scouting Wing in 1928-1929 and served on the...
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    the first planned night landing on a US aircraft carrier, on the USS Langley (CV-1) in a TS fighter biplane on April 8, 1925 (Lieutenant Harold J. Brow...
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    This had been a major issue with the US Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley, in the 1920s when carrier development was first underway. The second...
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