Navy Pier
Videos
Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot-long pier on the shoreline of Lake Michigan, located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The pier enc
Navy Pier 1190x 1585
During construction, 1915 (Chicago Daily News)
circa 1963
Navy Pier looking northwest in 2022
USS Sable
Videos
USS Sable was a United States Navy training ship during World War II, originally built as the passenger ship Greater Buffalo, a sidewheel excursion steamboat. She was purchased by the Navy in 1942 and
Navy Pier
…theater, gym, 12-chair barber shop, tailor, cobbler shops, soda fountain and a vast kitchen and hospital. The pier was home to the USS Wolverine and USS Sable, training carriers that qualified 18,000 naval aviators. Beginning in 1946, as the Navy was winding down from its mission, the University of Illinois…
USS Sable (IX-81) underway on Lake Michigan in 1944–45
Greater Buffalo underway in 1942
A TDN-1 assault drone aboard Sable 10 August 1943
An FM-2 Wildcat upended on USS Sable during a training flight May 1945