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USS Mazama (AE-9)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Sierra - Alpha
 NUSA
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Cuba, 1FEB-9MAR62) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2)
Second Row - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Vietnam Service Medal (4)
Third Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Cuba-24OCT-2DEC62, 1-Dominican Republic-2-14MAY65) - Philippines Liberation Medal (1) - Vietnam Campaign Medal (4)
Lassen Class Ammunition Ship
  • Laid down, date unknown, as a Maritime Commission type (C2 Cargo) hull under a Maritime Commission contract at Tampa Shipbuilding Corp., Tampa, FL.
  • Launched, 15 August 1943
  • Commissioned, USS Mazama (AE-9), 10 March 1944, CDR. P. V. R. Harris, USNR, in command
  • During WWII USS Mazama was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Saipan, 21 June to 11July 1944     		Leyte operation
    Leyte Gulf landings, 23 October to 1 November 1944

  • Decommissioned, 3 August 1946, at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Recommissioned, 24 April 1952
  • Decommissioned, 10 June 1957, at Orange TX.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange
  • Transferred to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX, 1 March 1960
  • Withdrawn from reserve and transferred to the US Navy 8 August 1961
  • Recommissioned, 27 November 1961
  • During the Vietnam War USS Mazama participated in the following campaigns:
    Vietnam War Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Vietnam Counteroffensive
    12 to 25 May 1966
    13 to 26 June 1966     		Tet 69/Counteroffensive
    20 April to 9 May 1969
    6 to 8 June 1969
    Vietnam Counteroffensive - Phase II
    20 to 30 July 1966
    18 August to 6 September 1966
    10 to 13 September 1966
    23 September to 8 October 1966
    17 to 27 October 1966     		Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969
    9 to 24 June 1969
    5 to 21 July 1969
    7 to 27 August 1969
    3 to 5 September 1969
    26 September to 23 October 1969

  • Decommissioned in May 1970, at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1970
  • Custody transferred to the Maritime Administration, 19 November 1970, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 1 March 1973, to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., delivered, 16 April 1973
  • USS Mazama earned two battle stars for World War II service and four campaign stars for Vietnam War service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,350 t.(lt) 14,255 t.(fl)
    Length 459'
    Beam 63'
    Draft 26' 5" (lim)
    Speed 16 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 21
    Enlisted 260
    Largest Boom Capacity30 t.
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eight twin 20mm AA gun mounts
    Cargo capacity 425,00 Cu ft, 9,265 t. dwt
    Fuel Capacity NFSO 8,425Bbls
    Propulsion
    one Nordberg TSM 219 Diesel engine
    single Fairbanks Morse Main Reduction Gear
    three Diesel-drive Ships Service Generators, 300Kw 120V/240V D.C.
    single propeller, 6,000shp
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    Mazama 74k USS Mazama (AE-9) moored pierside, circa early 1944, location unknown..
    US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, photo # 19-N-633398, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Robert Hurst
    Mazama 80k USS Mazama (AE-9) underway, circa early 1950s, location unknown.
    US Navy photo # USN 1044024, from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command.    		 Robert Hurst
    Mazama 96k USS Mazama (AE-9) underway, circa 1956, location unknown.
    US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command.    		 Robert Hurst
    Mazama 55k USS Mazama (AE-9) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 "AE" Sailors Association
    View the USS Mazama (AE-9)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Commanding Officers
    01CDR. Harris, P. V. R.10 March 1944 - ?
    02CAPT. Lambert, Glenn E.no dates
    07CAPT. Dalton, Joseph FrancisNovember 1955 - 10 June 1957
      Decommissioned10 June 1957 - 27 November 1961
    08CAPT. Hankey, John Robert27 November 1961 - ?
    10CAPT. Osterhoudt, Raymond ShradyMarch 1963 - May 1964
      CAPT. Cummings, Jr., Arthur Howard1968 - 1969
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
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