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| rdfs:comment | - Kenneth Whiting (22 July 1881 - 24 April 1943) was a United States Navy officer who was a pioneer in submarines and is best known for his lengthy career as a pioneering naval aviator. During World War I, he commanded the first American military force to arrive in Europe for combat. After the war, he was instrumental in development of the aircraft carrier in the United States, where he sometimes is known as the U.S. Navy's "father of the aircraft carrier." He was involved in some way in the design or construction of five of the first six U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, and served as acting commanding officer of the first carrier to enter U.S. Navy service and as executive officer of the first two American carriers. In the earliest days of the U.S. Navy's development of an aircraft carrier forc
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*1st Naval Air Unit
*Naval Air Station 14
*Naval Air Station 15
*Naval Air Station Norfolk
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*Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet
*Fleet Air Base Pearl Harbor
*Patrol Wing 2
*Naval Air Station New York
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| Caption | - Commander Kenneth Whiting aboard the aircraft carrier during his 1927-1929 tour as her executive officer.
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| Ribbon | - American Campaign Medal ribbon.svg
- Navy Cross ribbon.svg
- World War II Victory Medal ribbon.svg
- American Defense Service ribbon.svg
- World War I Victory Medal ribbon.svg
- Legion Honneur Chevalier ribbon.svg
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| Birth Place | - Stockbridge, Massachusetts
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| Awards | - *Navy Cross
*Legion of Honor (Chevalier)
*Victory Medal
*American Defense Service Medal
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| Battles | - *World War I
**Atlantic U-boat Campaign
*World War II
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| placeofburial | - sea off Execution Rocks in Long Island Sound
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| abstract | - Kenneth Whiting (22 July 1881 - 24 April 1943) was a United States Navy officer who was a pioneer in submarines and is best known for his lengthy career as a pioneering naval aviator. During World War I, he commanded the first American military force to arrive in Europe for combat. After the war, he was instrumental in development of the aircraft carrier in the United States, where he sometimes is known as the U.S. Navy's "father of the aircraft carrier." He was involved in some way in the design or construction of five of the first six U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, and served as acting commanding officer of the first carrier to enter U.S. Navy service and as executive officer of the first two American carriers. In the earliest days of the U.S. Navy's development of an aircraft carrier force, he led many shipboard innovations still in use aboard carriers today.
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