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USS Somerset (LPD-25)
USS ''Somerset'' (LPD-25) is a of the United States Navy. ''Somerset'' is the fourth Navy vessel, and the second warship to bear the name; the first two being a wooden-hulled motorboat and a ferry. The first warship, an USNS Coastal Sentry (T-AGM-15), armed cargo ship from World War II, was named for the Somerset Counties of Somerset County, Maine, Maine, Somerset County, Maryland, Maryland, Somerset County, New Jersey, New Jersey and Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania collectively. This ship was named specifically for Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Somerset County Pennsylvania, in honor of the passengers who died on United Airlines Flight 93, hijacked during the September 11 attacks, terror attacks of September 11, 2001. The passengers prevented the plane from reaching its intended target by forcing it to crash in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, Stonycreek Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. In the words of Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Somerset County (Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania German: ''Somerset Kaundi'') is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 74,129. Its county seat is Somerset, Pennsylvania, Somerset. The county was created from part of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, Bedford County on April 17, 1795, and named after the county of Somerset in England. Somerset County comprises the Somerset, PA micropolitan statistical area, which is included in the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Johnstown–Somerset, PA combined statistical area. The county is famous for being the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93, one of the four flights involved in the September 11 attacks, which crashed near the village of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Shanksville after the flight's passengers struggled with Al-Qaeda hijackers for control of the plane, which terrorists intended to fly into either t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
