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    USS Lea (DD-118) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II. She was named in honor of Edward Lea, a US...
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  • 1917 Launched: 15 December 1917 (List) Operator:  United States Navy (as USS Fairfax) Commissioned: 6 April 1918 (List) Decommissioned: 26 November 1940...
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  • Look up lea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lea or LEA may refer to: Lea River, Tasmania, Australia Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows...
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  • fallen in battle. Biography portal American Civil War portal The destroyer USS Lea (DD-118) was named for him, as is Camp #2 of the Sons of Union Veterans...
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    initially assigned to the heavy cruiser USS Chester, before joining the newly recommissioned destroyer USS Lea, which participated in the neutrality patrol...
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    USS Hamul USS Heywood USS Hilary P. Jones USS Lansdale USS Lea USS Mayo USS Nashville USS New York USS Niblack USS Orizaba USS Plunkett USS Salamonie USS Upshur...
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  • responsibility with Gleaves-class destroyers USS Edison and Nicholson, Wickes-class destroyers USS Lea and Bernadou and the Canadian Flower-class corvette...
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    the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in the Pacific Ocean in 1942, where he met the famous Army Air Corps pilot Jimmy Doolittle. Lea was on board the Hornet...
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    mistaken for a German prisoner of war following rescue by the crew of the USS Lea until Lawrence's fluency with the English military dialect convinced the...
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    Samuel S. Robison. From June 1931 to June 1933 he commanded the destroyer USS Lea. He then spent two years as an inspector of ordnance at the Mare Island...
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