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    USS Sable (IX-81) was a United States Navy training ship during World War II, originally built as the passenger ship Greater Buffalo, a sidewheel excursion...
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  • Look up sable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A sable is a mammal in the mustelid (weasel) family. Sable may also refer to: American Sable, an ARBA-recognised...
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    landing on USS Wolverine occurred during September 1942. From 1943 until the end of the war in 1945 USS Wolverine along with her sister ship USS Sable was used...
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    [citation needed] The Navy also purchased two training vessels, USS Wolverine and USS Sable, which were given the unclassified miscellaneous (IX) hull designation...
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    States Navy to operate two aircraft carriers on the Great Lakes, USS Sable and USS Wolverine. Both served as training ships to qualify naval aviators...
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    SBDs from USS Enterprise sank the Japanese submarine I-70. In February–March 1942, SBDs from the carriers USS Lexington, USS Yorktown, and USS Enterprise...
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    of Chicago, Illinois. The Navy had used two ships, the USS Wolverine (IX-64) and the USS Sable (IX-81), to qualify thousands of pilots. A and T Recovery...
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    Flashback: Navy Pier". Chicago Tribune. January 8, 2012. The former USS Sable (IX-81) and USS Wolverine (IX-64) moored near the Navy Pier, awaiting disposal...
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    (IX-80), seaplane tender, ex-USLHT Azalea, briefly USS Azalea (returned to USLHT service), later YAG-32 Sable (IX-81), ex-SS Greater Buffalo, Great Lakes Aircraft...
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    credited as the first US drone to take off from an aircraft carrier freely (USS Sable). An Airspeed Queen Wasp had already been catapulted from HMS Pegasus...
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