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Operation Cosmos
Operation Cosmos provided navigational aids for, and was prepared to render emergency assistance to, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's plane as the Chief Executive crossed the Pacific Ocean on a good will tour in 1960. References Example of use * USS Haverfield (DE-393) Non-combat military operations involving the United States {{US-mil-stub ...
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Dwight D
Dwight may refer to: People * Dwight (given name) * Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), 34th president of the United States and former military officer *New England Dwight family of American educators, military and political leaders, and authors * Ed Dwight (born 1933), American test pilot, participated in astronaut training program * Mabel Dwight (1875–1955), American artist * Elton John (born Reginald Dwight in 1947), English singer, songwriter and musician Places Canada * Dwight, Ontario, village in the township of Lake of Bays, Ontario United States * Dwight (neighborhood), part of an historic district in New Haven, Connecticut * Dwight, Illinois, village in Livingston and Grundy counties * Dwight, Kansas, city in Morris County * Dwight, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Dwight, Nebraska, village in Butler County * Dwight, North Dakota, city in Richland County * Dwight Township, Livingston County, Illinois * Dwight Township, Michigan Institutions * Dwight Correctional ...
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Oceania in the west and the Americas in the east. At in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), this largest division of the World Ocean—and, in turn, the hydrosphere—covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of its total surface area, larger than Earth's entire land area combined .Pacific Ocean
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USS Haverfield (DE-393)
USS ''Haverfield'' (DE-393) was an built for the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and provided destroyer escort protection against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys. Namesake James Wallace Haverfield was born 11 April 1917 in Urichsville, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. After receiving his B.A. degree in 1939, he enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as an apprentice seaman on 11 September 1940. He accepted an appointment as a midshipman on 16 March 1941 and after completing V-7 Midshipman Program training at Northwestern University, was commissioned as an Ensign in the unrestricted line of the U.S. Naval Reserve on 12 June 1941. He then reported to his first assignment aboard the battleship at Naval Base Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 28 June 1941. He was killed aboard the ''Arizona'' during the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 194 ...
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