Naval Training Center - Rudder Yearbook (Orlando, FL)

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or-IN PAUL JONES set the pattern for aggressive, res- olute fighting which has always been the ideal of the U.S. Navy. The heritage of our modern Navy is a vast montage of individual maritime achievements. Whether the ship be wooden, sail, armored, or atom powered, the indomitable spirit of fighting, sea faring, American men have made our country the bastion of the free world today. To john Paul Jones went the honor of first hoisting the Stars and Stripes over an American man-of-war, the USS RANGER, of receiving the first national salute in Quiberon Bay on February '14, 1778, from France. In command of the BONHOMME RICHARD he defeated and captured the SERAPIS off Flam- borough Head, giving our Navy its famous fighting words upon an invitation to surrender, I have not yet begun to fight. 4 I With such inspiration thousands of American sailors have followed in his wake, making individual courage collectively the spirit of our Navy. -Commo- dore Edward Preble, like john Paul Jones, filled his officers and men with esprit and fighting courage. Some of Preble's boys became the great leaders of the War of 1812, Stephen Decatur, James Lawrence, Thomas Macdonough. Perry swept the British sea power off Lake Erie. Hull and Bainbridge in the CONSTITUTION, along with Decatur in the UNITED STATES, established American naval power on the high seas during the first year of the War of 1812. As our nation grew in stature in the family of na- THE RETURN OF THE MAYFLOWER. COMMANDER J. K. TAUSSIG, U. S. NAVY,.LEADS THE FIRST DIVISION OF DESTROYERS INTO QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND, MAY 4, 1917, TO COMMENCE OUR ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE IN WORLD WAR I. 1 NAVAL HERITAGE AIR DEFENSE PACIFIC TASK FORCE OPERATION, WORLD WAR II. tions, so did our naval officers grow in stature as diplomats. Typical of their exploits Was Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's negotiations with the Em- peror of Japan in 1853-54. Our war between the states developed the same kind of fighting men. David Dixon Porter became famous on the Mississippi River. Captain Raphael Semmes in the commerce raider, CSS ALABAMA, alone cap- tured sixty-nine union ships before he was destroyed off Cherbourg, France by Winslow in the USS KEAR- SAGE. Perhaps the outstanding Civil War naval hero was David Glasgow Farragut Q Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! j, whose fleets enforced the blockade of the Confederacy. One -generation of fighting men breeds its successors. Dewey, and Sampson, our naval leaders in the Spanish- American War at the turn of the century, led and bred the naval leaders of our next war. Wilson, Simms, Hart, Taussig, and many others next guided our Navy in the defeat of the German U-boat menace and con- voyed our armies safely to France in the war with Germany during 1917 and 1918. Between the wars the Navy devoted its meager resources and manpower, ships and funds to research and development in aviation and submarine warfare. Stricken at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines in 1941, practically blockaded by German submarines operat- ing off our East coast ports, the nation built, in three short years, the most powerful naval force in the his- tory of the world. The indomitable spirit of our carrier dive bomber and torpedo plane pilots turned the tide of the war in thelPacific in the Battle of

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