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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

Expeditions, Diplomatic and Scientific Activity, and Operations Against Native Americans and Pirates: Selected 19th Century US Operations

Great White Fleet, 1907-1909

Jeanette Expedition, 1879-1881

Lynch Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea, 1847-1848

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

US Navy Congo River Expedition of 1885

Humanitarian/Rescue

A Sampling of U.S. Naval Humanitarian Operations by Adam Siegel

USS Kearsage Rescue of Russian Soldiers

Nuclear Testing

Operation Crossroads, Bikini Tests, 1946

Weather Related

Hurricanes and the War of 1812: New Orleans and Charleston

Storm at Apia, Samoa, 1889

Pacific Typhoon, December 1944 

Pacific Typhoon, June 1945

Okinawa Typhoon, October 1945

Tsunami (Tidal Wave) Disaster and the U.S. Navy