USS Yokes (APD-69), ex-DE-668, was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1944 to 1946. William John Yokes was born n 15 November...
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Yokes may refer to: William J. Yokes (1918–1942), United States Navy sailor for whom a U.S. Navy high-speed transport was named USS Yokes (DE-668), a...
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USS Enright (APD-66) USS Jenks (APD-67) USS Durik (APD-68) USS Yokes (APD-69) USS Pavlic (APD-70) USS Odum (APD-71) USS Jack C. Robinson (APD-72) USS Bassett (APD-73)...
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and her sister ship, the high-speed transport USS Yokes (APD-69), picked up survivors from the destroyer USS Drexler (DD-741), which had been sunk by two...
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Submarine Chaser Training Center in Miami and then as first lieutenant on USS Yokes at Okinawa. Fay and his brother founded Seabrook Shipyard in 1938 and...
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AD-41) USS Yew (YN-32/AN-37) USS Yo Ho (SP-463) USS Yokes (DE-668/APD-69) USS Yolo (LST-677/LST(M)-677/APB-43) USS Yonaguska (YT-195/YTB-195/YTM-195) USS York...
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aircraft, the resultant "jet blast" of turbulent air was so intense that the yokes of both of the Zeros in the scene were violently wrenched out of the pilots'...
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USS Texas was a pre-dreadnought battleship built by the United States in the early 1890s. The first American battleship commissioned, she was built in...
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1984 joint operations with USS Pintado; and 1990 joint exercises with USS Seahorse. 6 May 1986 – USS Ray, USS Archerfish and USS Hawkbill meet and surface...
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witnessed by an old sailor telling of it on the 1839-1841 cruise of the USS Constitution. The first ascending-gliding parachute was developed by Pierre-Marcel...
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