EAWS Block 12 Exam 2026 Questions
and Answers
Birthday of Naval Aviation? - Correct answer-May 8, 1911
14 November 1910 - Correct answer-First takeoff from a ship. Eugene Ely flew a
50 hp Curtiss plane from a wooden platform built on the bow of the USS
Birmingham
8 May 1911 - Correct answer-Capt. W. I. Chambers prepares requisitions for 2
Glenn Curtiss biplanes. Birth of naval aviation.
20 June 1913 - Correct answer-First fatality of naval aviation, Ensign William D.
Billingsly. Thrown from the plane and fell to his death.
22 October 1917 - Correct answer-Special courses to train men as inspectors were
added to the Ground School program at MIT with 14 men enrolled.
20 March 1922 - Correct answer-The Jupiter was recommissioned after conversion
to the navy's first carrier, the USS Langley (CV-1).
1948 - Correct answer-The navy commissioned it's first helicopter squadron-HU-1.
First carrier landing made by a US Navy Jet. (FJ-1 Fury lands on USS Boxer)
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, 5 May 1961 - Correct answer-Naval aviator Alan B. Shepard Jr. became first
American to go into space
20-21 July 1969 - Correct answer-Naval aviator Neil Armstrong walked on the
moon
1994 - Correct answer-The first of many female naval aviators successfully passed
fleet carrier qualifications in combat aircraft
Coral Sea 7-8 May 1942 - Correct answer-Japanese code broke , US alerted to a
large Japanese force moving to the Coral Sea to seize Port Moresby. First step of
planned invasion of Australia. Plan centered around 3 aircraft carriers. American
forces met Japanese with 2 AC carriers. Japanese sank 2 minor ships, US sank an
isolated Japanese carrier. Next day, both sides launch planes against each other.
One Japanese carrier damaged, US carrier Lexington sunk, carrier Yorktown
damages. Both sides withdrew.
Midway 3-5 June 1942 - Correct answer-Turning point of the Pacific war. CMDR
in chief ADM Yamamoto split force of 160 warships, sent north to Aleutian Islands
in diversionary act. Due to broken codes, US knew what was happening. 3
Japanese carriers sank in 1 day, next day, the 4th carrier was sunk. Japanese sunk
Yorktown
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and Answers
Birthday of Naval Aviation? - Correct answer-May 8, 1911
14 November 1910 - Correct answer-First takeoff from a ship. Eugene Ely flew a
50 hp Curtiss plane from a wooden platform built on the bow of the USS
Birmingham
8 May 1911 - Correct answer-Capt. W. I. Chambers prepares requisitions for 2
Glenn Curtiss biplanes. Birth of naval aviation.
20 June 1913 - Correct answer-First fatality of naval aviation, Ensign William D.
Billingsly. Thrown from the plane and fell to his death.
22 October 1917 - Correct answer-Special courses to train men as inspectors were
added to the Ground School program at MIT with 14 men enrolled.
20 March 1922 - Correct answer-The Jupiter was recommissioned after conversion
to the navy's first carrier, the USS Langley (CV-1).
1948 - Correct answer-The navy commissioned it's first helicopter squadron-HU-1.
First carrier landing made by a US Navy Jet. (FJ-1 Fury lands on USS Boxer)
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, 5 May 1961 - Correct answer-Naval aviator Alan B. Shepard Jr. became first
American to go into space
20-21 July 1969 - Correct answer-Naval aviator Neil Armstrong walked on the
moon
1994 - Correct answer-The first of many female naval aviators successfully passed
fleet carrier qualifications in combat aircraft
Coral Sea 7-8 May 1942 - Correct answer-Japanese code broke , US alerted to a
large Japanese force moving to the Coral Sea to seize Port Moresby. First step of
planned invasion of Australia. Plan centered around 3 aircraft carriers. American
forces met Japanese with 2 AC carriers. Japanese sank 2 minor ships, US sank an
isolated Japanese carrier. Next day, both sides launch planes against each other.
One Japanese carrier damaged, US carrier Lexington sunk, carrier Yorktown
damages. Both sides withdrew.
Midway 3-5 June 1942 - Correct answer-Turning point of the Pacific war. CMDR
in chief ADM Yamamoto split force of 160 warships, sent north to Aleutian Islands
in diversionary act. Due to broken codes, US knew what was happening. 3
Japanese carriers sank in 1 day, next day, the 4th carrier was sunk. Japanese sunk
Yorktown
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