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1. USNAMH_080809_006.JPG: President James Polk (1795-1849) Approved the transfer of Fort Severn from the War Department to the Navy Department for the founding of the United States Naval Academy 1845 Artist: Thomas Casilear Cole
2. USNAMH_080809_016.JPG: Mission of the United States Naval Academy To develop midshipmen morally, mentally and physically and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, humor and loyalty in order to provide graduates who are dedicated to a career of Naval Service and have potential for future development in mind and character to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship, and government.
3. USNAMH_080809_022.JPG: Oath of Office United States Naval Academy Having been appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy, I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter SO HELP ME GOD
4. USNAMH_080809_032.JPG: Air Defense, Battle of Santa Cruz, October 26, 1942 by Commander Dwight Shepler, USNR Repulse of the final attempt of the Japanese seaborne air forces to cut off the beleaguered invasion of Guadalcanal. Two of the three remaining fast carriers of that tenuous period, Enterprise and Hornet, with their screening task groups dominated by the performance of the battleship South Dakota, beat off climactic air attack by planes of four enemy carriers. The sinking Hornet burns on the horizon, while ships maneuvering violently at 30 knots are from left to right: destroyer Smith, forecastle afire from a divebomber's crash; heavy cruiser Portland; battleship South Dakota; destroyer Shaw; furious anti-aircraft cruiser San Juan; immortal Enterprise; and heavy cruiser Northampton. Painted from the artist's combat sketches.
5. USNAMH_080809_080.JPG: Ripley at the Bridge: Members of Naval Academy Classes from the mid-30s to the early 70s participated in America's longest war. In one sense, however, the war was unique to the CLASS of 1962 which suffered the greatest losses. The war started when they were Ensigns and Second Lieutenants and America's involvement ended when they were senior officers. The diorama depicts CAPTAIN JOHN RIPLEY, US Marine Corps, Naval Academy Class of 1962, in action at Dong Ha on Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972. Two reinforced North Vietnamese divisions (30,000 troops and over 200 tanks) were attempting to cross the Dong Ha bridge which would have given them a clear shot at the provincial capitol of Quang Tri and then, unhampered, on to the ancient capitol of Hue. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, Captain Ripley, a Force Reconnaissance officer who had earlier served as a British Royal Marine Commando company commanders, single-handedly carried over 500 lbs of plastic explosives into the under structure of the bridge. Another army advisor on the south bank handed explosives to Ripley while he was under the bridge. Ripley, the sole Marine advisor to the 3rd Vietnamese Marine Battalion, was under constant fire from numerous tanks and hundreds of North Vietnam's. [sic]
6. USNAMH_080809_100.JPG: William Adger Moffett Rear Admiral US Navy First Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics 1921-1932 (???) An outstanding leader in the development of naval aviation who gallantly gave his life in that cause on 4 April 1933 upon the occasion of the loss at sea of the USS Akron.
7. USNAMH_080809_117.JPG: The Capture of U-505 Two days before the Normandy Invasion, Captain Dan Gallery's hunter-killer group claims a well-deserved prize: a German U-boat. Depicted here is the destroyer escort PILLSBURG as she stands by while a boarding party prepares to rig a tow line to U-505, which lies with its stern awash off the coast of West Africa. Steaming in the distance is the escort carrier GUADALCANAL upon which Captain Gallery is embarked as Command of Task Group 22.3. Captain Gallery, ISN, Naval Academy Class of 1921, planned for this improbable opportunity. A boarding party had been organized aboard each ship and rehearsed for a role few ever expected to materialize. Two days before the allied invasion of Normandy, the destroyer CHATELAINE reported a sonar contact off the coast of northern Africa. Within minutes, she had maneuvered into firing position using target information from a wildcat fighter plane from GUADALCANAL. The use of depth charges forced the U-505 to surface. Straffing [sic] with anti-personnel shells kept the sub's crew from manning their deck guns and forced them into the water where they were promptly rescued by CHATELAINE.
8. USNAMH_080809_131.JPG: I never found what these were for
9. USNAMH_080809_140.JPG: In memory of Commander Charles J. McDougal, USN who was drowned in the breakers off Cape Mendocino, California, under the most distressing circumstances, when in the faithful discharge of his duty as inspector of the 12th Light House District March 31, 1881 Aged 44 years This tablet is erected to his beloved memory by his devoted sisters.
10. USNAMH_080809_148.JPG: To the memory of Charles Flint Putnam master US Navy who volunteered for duty on board the United States steamer Rodgers, a vessel despatched to the Arctic Ocean for the relief of the Jeannette exploring expedition. After having gallantly succored his shipwrecked companions while returning to his station at Cape Serdze Kamen Siberia, he drifted out to sea and perished, along on the ice in Saint Lawrence Bay, Behring Straits, about January 11, 1882. This table is erected by his friends and brother officers in loving remembrance and as a memorial of his heroic sacrifice.
11. USNAMH_080809_196.JPG: William Sowden Sims Admiral, US Navy 1858-1936 Commander, US Naval Forces in Europe, World War I
12. USNAMH_080809_218.JPG: As a memorial of the Christian heroism of Lieut. Alfred Foree US Navy, who lost his life in the surf off Graytown, Nicaragua April 12, 1872 in a gallant attempt to rescue his commanding officer and boats crew from drowning. This tablet is erected by his admiring and bereaved brother officers.
13. USNAMH_080809_228.JPG: In memoriam Ensign Joseph Cabell Breckinridge proto-martyr of the war with Spain. Born at Fort Monroe March 6, 1872.. Washed overboard from US torp'o boat Cushing February 11 1898 while carrying dispatches to USS Maine in Havana Harbor. Both sure and stedfast [sic]
14. USNAMH_080809_233.JPG: 1898 In memory of Friend William Jenkins Lieutenant US Navy Class of 1886 USNA who perished in the explosion of the USS Maine, on the night of February 15, 1898 in the harbor of Havana Cuba. Erected by his classmates. He spoke evil of no man.
15. USNAMH_080809_238.JPG: In memory of Lieutenant John G. Talbot, USN Peter Francis, Quar.Master. John Andrews, Coxswain. James Muir, Capt. of Hold. All of the USS Saginaw. Who were drowned Dec. 19, 1870 while attempting to land on the island of Kauai, in the north Pacific Ocean, after a boat voyage of fifteen hundred miles, voluntarily undertaken in search of aid for their wrecked shipmates on ocean island. To commemorate their adventurous voyage, in admiration of their heroism, and to keep alive the remembrance of their noble and generous devotion, this table is erected by their shipmates and by officers of the US Navy. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
16. USNAMH_080809_257.JPG: Charles Vernon Gridley Captain United States Navy Born November 24 - 1844 Appointed to the Naval Academy from Michigan 1860 - Graduated 1863 Served with Farragut 1863-64 Commanded US Flagship Olympia at the Battle of Manila Bay May 1 - 1898 Died at Kobe Japan June 5 - 1898
17. USNAMH_080809_260.JPG: In Memory of Henry Barlow Rumsey Lieut. Comd'r US Navy safely escaping from a burning hotel he heard the cry of a child and returned to save her. He brought her out but at the cost of his life. "This is erected by his Wife and Mother" AD 1893
18. USNAMH_080809_266.JPG: USS Delaware (1820-1861) Howard B. French (1906-1987) One of the ships-of-the-line authorized in 1816, Delaware was commissioned in 1820. For more than twenty years, she alternated periods in period with foreign deployments, serving in the Mediterranean and Brazil Stations. She was placed out of commission in 1844. She was scuttled at Norfolk Navy Yard at the beginning of the Civil War. The ship's figurehead, of the Delaware Indian chief Tamanend, was recovered after the war and placed at the Naval Academy, where it became popularly known as Tecumseh.
19. USNAMH_080809_273.JPG: Admiral William S. Benson, USN 1855-1932 First Chief of Naval Operations 1915-1919 Sculpted by J. O. Davidson 1893-1952
20. USNAMH_080809_297.JPG: USS Constellation: Charles R. Patterson (1878-1958) The sloop-of-war Constellation was commissioned in 1855, the last all-sail ship built for the United States Navy. She served in the Mediterranean and African Squadrons, returning home for the Civil War. For most of her career, Constellation served as a training ship, including summer practice cruises for midshipmen at the Naval Academy from 1871 to 1893. During World War II, the old sloop-of-war, still in commission, served as flag ship for the Command-in-Chief, US Atlantic Fleet. She is now a historic museum ship in Baltimore.
21. USNAMH_080809_312.JPG: Robley Dunglison (Fighting Bob) Evans Rear Admiral U.S. Navy 1846-1913 Fort Fisher, Valparaiso, Santiago, Fleet Commander.
22. USNAMH_080809_328.JPG: USS Monongahela (1862-1908) Howard B. French (1906-1987) Launched in 1862 as a barkentine-rigged screw steamer, Monongahela took part in the assault on Port Hudson and Mobile Bay during the Civil War. After the war, she was hit by a tidal wave while in St. Croix and carried almost a mile inland. Refloated and repaired, she served on the South Atlantic and Asiatic stations before become a supply vessel along the West Coast of South America for the Pacific Squadron. In 1890, Monongahela was rerigged as a ship, and from 1894 to 1899 served as a training ship for midshipmen at the Naval Academy.
23. USNAMH_080809_344.JPG: DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP Dedicated to the honor of those alumni who have been killed in action defending the ideals of their country. With immortal valor and the price of their lives these proved their love of country and their loyalty to the high traditions of their alma mater by inscribing with their own blood the narrative of their deeds above and underneath the seven seas. They have set the course they silently stand watch wherever navy ships ply the waters of the globe.
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25. USNAMH_080809_356.JPG: Engagement Between the USS Constellation and L'Insurgente, February 9, 1799 Charles R. Patterson (1878-1958) Sent to the West Indies to protect American merchant shipping from attack during the undeclared naval war with France, Constellation, Capt. Thomas Truxtun, twice met enemy warships. Truxtun captured L'Insurgente in the first battle; the second, with the much larger Vengeance, ended as the ships drifted apart in the darkness to repair damage.
26. USNAMH_080809_382.JPG: Admiral Albert Greaves 1858-1937 Commanded cruiser and transport force during the World War. "He organized the strategy of our transport service and completed the enormous task assigned to him without the loss of a single soldier. For this service, he won the admiration of the world." -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt "I am prouder of my country because he holds in it the position he does." -- Theodore Roosevelt "You have won a great naval victory." -- M. Fainleve, French minister of war "From a seaman's point of view, it is unparalleled in history." -- Viscount Jellicoe, First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty
27. USNAMH_080809_395.JPG: George Hamilton Perkins Commodore United States Navy 1835-1899 Resourceful as an officer, inspiring as a leader, his heroism at New Orleans and in the Gulf, his skill and daring in the Battle of Mobile Bay when as commander of the Chickasaw he compelled the surrender of the Tennessee, won from Farragut these words "No braver man ever trod a vessel's deck"
28. USNAMH_080809_412.JPG: Dedicated to those alumni of the United States Naval Academy who had been awarded the Medal of Honor.
29. USNAMH_080809_419.JPG: Opening of the Action Between the USS Constitution and HMS Java, December 29, 1812 Charles R. Patterson (1878-1958) In the second of her famous victories of the War of 1812, the frigate Constitution, Capt. William Bainbridge, defeated the British frigate Java, Capt. Henry Lambert, after a long hard-fought battle in which both captains were wounded. Lambert would die five days later.
30. USNAMH_080809_473.JPG: Battle of Lake Erie (September 10, 1813) Charles R. Patterson (1878-1958) and Howard B. French (1906-1987) Sent to Lake Erie to build a fleet to oppose British threats of invasion along the northern border of the united States, Commo. Oliver Hazard Perry captured the entire British squadron. It was among the most strategically important naval victories in history, preserving for the United States the region of Ohio and the Northwest Territory. Perry's message to Gen. William Henry Harrison was succinct: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours..."
31. USNAMH_080809_485.JPG: First Foreign Salute to the Stars and Stripes, February 14, 1778 Howard B. French (1906-1987) On November 1, 1777, Capt. John Paul Jones sailed to Europe in the Continental Navy ship Ranger intent on taking the American war for independence to the British Isles. In Quiberon Bay, France, Jones fired a 13-gun salute to the French admiral's flagship and received a 9-gun salute in return. It was the first foreign recognition of the flag of the new independent nation.
32. USNAMH_080809_579.JPG: George Bancroft 1800-1891 Historian Secretary of the Navy Founder of the Naval Academy 1845
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2008 photos: Equipment this year: I was using three cameras -- the Fuji S9000 and the Canon Rebel Xti from last year, and a new camera, the Fuji S100fs. The first two cameras had their pluses and minuses and I really didn't have a single camera that I thought I could use for just about everything. But I loved the S100fs and used it almost exclusively this year. Trips this year: (1) Civil War Preservation Trust annual conference in Springfield, Missouri , (2) a week in New York, (3) a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con, (4) a driving trip to St. Louis, and (5) a visit to dad and Dixie's in Asheville, North Carolina. Ego strokes: A picture I'd taken last year during a Friends of the Homeless event was published in USA Today with a photo credit and everything! I became a volunteer photographer with the AFI/Silver theater. Number of photos taken this year: 330,000.
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