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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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Expeditions, Exploration, Humanitarian and Other Non-Combat Operations

Expeditions and Scientific Exploration

Astronauts: Chronology of Space Mission Involving U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Member

Great White Fleet, 1907-1909

Jeanette Expedition, 1879-1881

Opening of Japan - Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 1853-1854

Operation Deepfreeze I, Antarctica, 1955-56 Building a base of operations in Antarctica for the International Geophysical Year in 1957-58

From the Sea to the Stars: A History of U.S. Space and Space-Related Activities

Humanitarian/Rescue

USS Kearsage Rescue of Russian Soldiers

Nuclear Testing

Operation Crossroads, Bikini Tests, 1946

Weather Related

Storm at Apia, Samoa, 1889

Pacific Typhoon, December 1944 

Pacific Typhoon, June 1945

Okinawa Typhoon, October 1945