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United States Navy in the 20th century

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Iran Air Flight 655 shootdown
1988 airliner shootdown
Washington Naval Treaty
1922 international treaty concerning naval construction and fleet limits
Grumman S-2 Tracker
anti-submarine aircraft family by the Grumman Corporation
London Naval Treaty
agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, signed on 22 April 1930, which regulated submarine warfare and limited naval shipbuilding
USS Pueblo
1944 Banner-class environmental research ship
USS Liberty incident
1967 Israeli attack on American navy ship
Sound Surveillance System
thumb|upright=1.35|First SOSUS stations Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) was the original name for a submarine detection system based on passive sonar developed by the United States Navy to track Soviet submarines. The system's true nature was classified with the name and acronym SOSUS classified as well. The unclassified name Project Caesar was used to cover the installation of the system and a cover story developed regarding the shore stations, identified only as a Naval Facility (NAVFAC), being for oceanographic research. The name changed to Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) i
USS Cole bombing
Al-Qaeda bombing of USS Cole
Operation Praying Mantis
1988 United States naval offensive against Iran during the Iran-Iraq War
Great White Fleet
US Navy battleship fleet which circumnavigated the globe
destroyers-for-bases deal
a 1940 agreement whereby the United States supplied the United Kingdom with fifty destroyers in exchange for basing rights in Newfoundland and the Caribbean.
USS Panay incident
Japanese attack on a US gunboat in 1937
Port Chicago disaster
1944 explosion in California, United States
Second London Naval Treaty
international naval treaty in Interwar era
USS Stark
1980 Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Honda Point disaster
shipwreck
PT-109
motor torpedo boat captained by John F. Kennedy
USS Iowa turret explosion
1989 battleship explosion
USS Samuel B. Roberts
1984 Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
Black Tom explosion
munitions explosion via sabotage
Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization
US Navy project
War Plan Orange
interwar US Army plan for war with the Empire of Japan
Iraqi attack on USS Stark
military incident between the United States and Iraq
Cruise missile strikes on Iraq
1996 military operation
Allied submarines in the Pacific War
Revolt of the Admirals
US Cold War incident involving funding and policy dispute about the US Navy
Operation Sea Orbit
circumnavigation of the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered TF1
Two-Ocean Navy Act
1940 Act of the United States Congress
UNITAS
thumb|right|UNITAS emblem
600-ship Navy
United States Cold War-era defense plan
Santo Domingo Affair
military incident in the Dominican Republic involving the United States
Fleet Problems
Major US Navy interwar fleet exercises, renewed in 21st century
United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification
Bombardment of Samsun
1922 Greek and American naval operation in Turkey
Operation Sea-Spray
1950 release of bacteria by U.S. Navy in California
SEALAB
SEALAB I, II, and III were experimental underwater habitats developed and deployed by the United States Navy during the 1960s to prove the viability of saturation diving and humans living in isolation for extended periods of time. The knowledge gained from the SEALAB expeditions helped advance the science of deep sea diving and rescue and contributed to the understanding of the psychological and physiological strains humans can endure.
Operation Sandblast
code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world
USS Simpson
1984 Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate
attack transport
United States Navy ship classification
Iran Ajr
ship built in 1978
West Loch disaster
US maritime disaster
1960 Rio de Janeiro air crash
1960 aviation accident