"A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag.
Used more loosely, it is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, typically the first, largest, fastest, most heavily armed, or best known."
"Over the years, the term "flagship" has become a metaphor used in industries such as broadcasting, automobiles, education, technology, airlines, and retail to refer to their highest quality, best known, or most expensive products and locations."
1944
"Mount Olympus departed from the East Coast in early July, arriving at Hawaii via the Panama Canal on 23 July. With the Commander, 3rd Amphibious Force, embarked, she was underway from Hawaii on 29 August.
She arrived Leyte Gulf 20 October, there to serve as the floating headquarters for the huge U.S. Army invasion force.
"With 432,000 Japanese soldiers in the Philippines, General Yamashita decided to make Leyte the main effort of the Japanese defense, and on 21 October, ordered the 35th Army to coordinate a decisive battle with the Imperial Japanese Navy."
"As their air strength diminished, the Japanese resorted to the deadly kamikazes, a corps of suicide pilots who crashed their bomb-laden planes directly into US ships"
"On 23 October, the approach of the enemy surface vessels was detected. US naval units moved out to intercept, and
the air and naval Battle of Leyte Gulf—the largest naval battle in the Pacific
and also one of the largest naval battles in history
was fought from 23 to 26 October—the Japanese suffered a decisive defeat
The landing force was subjected to continual air attacks, but its survival was assured by the American naval victory
in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which destroyed the Japanese Navy as an effective combat force."
"After invasion rehearsals at Huon Gulf, New Guinea, the ship departed Manus Island, Admiralties, on
31 December for the assault on Lingayen Gulf on 9 January 1945.
After the initial assault and with the ground force commander disembarked,
Mount Olympus was soon underway on 11 January from Lingayen Gulf. "
"At 09:30 on 9 January 1945, the U.S. 6th Army conducted an amphibious landing on the gulf, following a devastating naval bombardment, with
68,000 troops landing on the first day alone,
and a total of 203,608 in following landings
along a 20 mi (32 km) beachhead"
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(typhoon is a tropical cyclone
that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least 119 km/h (74 mph).
This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, accounting for almost one third of the world's tropical cyclones.)
(A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.
Depending on its location and strength,
a tropical cyclone is called a hurricane (/ˈhʌrɪkən, -keɪn/), typhoon (/taɪˈfuːn/), tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, or simply cyclone.
A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean.
A typhoon is the same thing which occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean)
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'October 7, 1944 was ordered to a shore assignment in the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department, Washington, DC, where
JSC was placed in charge of research and development of naval guns, mounts and missile launchers.
Detached in October 1948, he assumed command of USS Mt. Olympus,
and continued in command of that Amphibious Force, Flagship, in the Atlantic, until December 1949.
Jackson Selover Champlin
28 December 1904 - 29 July 1988
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"September, Mount Olympus was made the flagship for Operation Highjump, the U.S. Navy's Antarctic Expedition.
The ship sailed from Naval Station Norfolk on 2 December, passed through the Panama Canal to rendezvous with the Pacific group, and with it she reached the Bay of Whales, New Zealand on
16 January 1947. Mount Olympus was detached from the group on 11 February, and she returned to Norfolk on 17 April to
become the flagship of Commander, Amphibious Group 2, in training along the East Coast of the United States and in the Caribbean Sea.
She became flagship and temporary headquarters for CINCNELM/CINCSOUTH in the Mediterranean Sea on 21 June 1951.
Having participated in exercise Surfboard with the 38th Infantry Regiment from Washington State off the coast of San Simeon, California in mid-March,
Mount Olympus proceeded to Arctic waters as part of Project 572 in support of
the Distant Early Warning Line.
"The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line,
was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada,
with additional stations along the north coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska (see Project Stretchout and Project Bluegrass),
in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland.
It was set up to detect incoming bombers of the Soviet Union during the Cold War,
and provide early warning of any sea-and-land invasion."
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" Cruzen departed the United States on board his flagship, the USS Mount Olympus, on December 2, 1946.
Personnel assigned to the expedition included meteorologists, zoologists, physicists, and experts from oceanographic institutes.
Besides gathering scientific data, another goal of the expedition was to train Navy personnel and to test Navy ships and other equipment in cold weather and ice operations."
1946, Admiral Richard E. Byrd was selected as officer in charge of the Navy's Antarctic Developments Project, also known as Operation Highjump. Cruzen was chosen to commanded Task Force 68, which constituted the vast majority of the resources assigned to the operation.
Task Force 68 consisted of 4,700 personnel, a command ship, an aircraft carrier, two destroyers, two icebreakers, two seaplane tenders, two supply ships, two tankers and a submarine.
This was by far the largest Antarctic expedition up to that time and, possibly, the largest in history."
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