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| Invasion of southern France, 15 August to 25 September 1944 |
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350k | Pyro (AE-1) under construction in dry-dock at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, 13 August 1919. Her sister,
Nitro (AE-2), is building astern to starboard in the same dock.
US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # NH 42574 |
Mike Green | |
NH 42575 |
219k | Pyro (AE-1) under construction in dry-dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard, circa August 1919. Her sister,
Nitro (AE-2), is building astern to starboard in the same dock.
US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo #'s NH 42575 and NH 42576. by Jacobs, Seattle. |
Mike Green | |
NH 42576 |
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214k | Pyro (AE-1) ready for launching in the construction dry-dock at Puget Sound Navy Yard, 16 December 1919.
Her sister, Nitro (AE-2), is building astern to starboard in the same dock.
US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # NH 70483 |
Mike Green | |
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302k | USS Pyro (AE-1) (closest to camera) and USS Nitro (AE-2) during launching ceremonies, 16 December 1919, at Puget Sound Navy Yard.
Puget Sound Navy Yard Museum |
Mike Green | |
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198k | Nitro (AE-2) fitting out at Puget Sound Navy Yard, 3 January 1921. Practically complete except for her refrigeration plant and
turbo generators.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 44863 |
Mike Green | |
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175k | Nitro (AE-2) completing her fitting out at Puget Sound Navy Yard, WA., 14 February 1921.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 2790 from the collection of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, MC USN |
Mike Green | |
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82k | USS Nitro (AE-2) moored pierside, 22 August 1922, location unknown.
US Library of Congress Cat. # 8-26-22 LCCN2016846651.tif., US Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division, digital ID npcc.23273. |
Robert Hurst | |
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132k | USS Nitro (AE-2) dressed in flags moored to a buoy, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
Jim Kurrasch Battleship Iowa Pacific Battleship Center |
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52k | USS Nitro (AE-2) moored pierside, date and location unknown.
Photo from "U.S.Warships of World War One" with permission from the author Paul H. Silverstone. |
Robert Hurst | |
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26k | USS Nitro (AE-2) moored pierside, circa 1930s, location unknown. | Ron Reeves | |
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221k | USS Nitro (AE-2) moored pierside at Naval Ammunition Deport Iona New York, circa 1930s. Photo by CWO4 Cecil Wood USMC |
Donald Wood for his father CWO4 Cecil Wood USMC | |
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172k | Philidelphia Navy Yard, 2 March 1932.
USS Dobbin (AD-3) at pier 4, with two out of commission "four-piper" destroyers alongside.
USS Nitro (AE-2) at pier 2, and
USS Fulton (PG-49) at pier 3.
The x-battleship USS Florida (BB-30) is scrapping across from Dobbin.
From the Dallin Collection 07139, Hagley Museum. Used for educational and non-commercial purpose. |
John Chiquoine | |
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90k | USS Nitro (AE-2) at Naval Ammunition Depot Balboa, Canal Zone, 1 January 1938. US National Archives photo # 80-G-466183, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret | |
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105k | USS Nitro (AE-2) near the Norfolk Navy Yard, 4 September 1942. The two forward 5"/51 guns have been replaced with two
additional 3"/50 AA guns and the .50 caliber machine guns have been replaced with 20mm guns. She also has a light radar platform around her forward searchlight.
US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo # 19-N-34507 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | |
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175k | USS Nitro (AE-2) underway, 17 December 1943.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-200266, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
Rick Davis | |
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37k | USS Nitro (AE-2) after departing Norfolk, VA., 20 April 1944, while enroute to Belfast, Northern Ireland. US Navy photo. |
Hyperwar US Navy in WWII | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | CDR. Vincent, Roe Willis, USN (USNA 1899) | 1 April 1921 - 2 June 1923 |
| 02 | CDR. Ridgely, Frank Eugene, USN (USNA 1896) | 2 June 1923 - 1 December 1923 |
| 03 | CDR. Stark, Harold Raynsford (Betty), USN (USNA 1905) :ADM | 1 December 1923 - 14 November 1925 |
| 04 | CDR. Pickens, Andrew Calhoun, USN (USNA 1904) :RADM | 14 November 1925 - 8 April 1927 |
| 05 | CAPT. Metcalf, Martin Kellogg, USN (USNA 1903) | 8 April 1927 - 9 May 1929 |
| 06 | CAPT. Finney, Earl Peck, USN (USNA 1902) | 9 May 1929 - 9 June 1931 |
| 07 | CAPT. McCain, John Sidney ("Slew"), USN (USNA1906) :ADM | 9 June 1931 - 31 May 1932 |
| 08 | CDR. Parker, Ralph Chandler, USN (USNA 1907) | 31 May 1932 - 25 May 1934 |
| 09 | CDR. Markland, Henry Thomas, USN (USNA 1908) | 25 May 1934 - 31 May 1936 |
| 10 | CDR. Kelly, Monroe, USN (USNA 1909) | 31 May 1936 - 1937 |
| 12 | CDR. Bennion, Mervyn Sharp, USN (USNA 1912) | 10 March 1938 - 1 June 1939 |
| 13 | CAPT. Cobb, Calvin Hayes, USN (USNA 1911) :VADM | 1 June 1939 - 11 July 1940 |
| 14 | CDR. Balsley, Alfred Henry, USN (USNA 1914) | 11 July 1940 - 15 June 1941 |
| 15 | CAPT. Chippendale, Burton Witham, USN (USNA 1915) | 15 June 1941 - 3 June 1942 |
| 16 | CDR. Johnson, George William, USN (USNA 1918) | 3 June 1942 - 1 July 1942 |
| 17 | LCDR. Milner, Robert Miller (Shorty), USN (USNA 1921a) (acting) | 1 July 1942 - 29 July 1942 |
| 18 | CDR. Ragonnet, Lucien, USN (USNA 1922) :RADM | 29 July 1942 - 13 March 1943 |
| 19 | CDR. Trimble, Foy, USNR | 13 March 1943 - 25 September 1945 |
| 20 | LCDR. Parr, Walter Scott, USN | 25 September 1945 - 30 November 1945 |
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