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Vietnam War Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II
5 to 23 May 1967 | Tet Counteroffensive
27 to 28 March 1968 |
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III
5 to 28 June 1967 18 to 31 July 1967 17 to 31 August 1967 25 September to 17 October 1967 24 to 31 October 1967 6 to 8 December 1967 |
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117k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) departing her conversion yard, Bethlehem Steel Key Highway Shipyard at Baltimore, MD., 10 August 1945,
a day after completing conversion and commissioning. A Baltimore harbor tug is assisting. US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, photo # 19-N-87311, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archive, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Robert Hurst | |
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136k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) under way at NOB Norfolk, VA., circa 1963. She is being assisted by the tug
Nahasho (YTM-535). US Navy photo |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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112k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) underway off the Virginia Capes, August 1964 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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123k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) underway off the Virginia Capes during an underway replenishment exercise, August 1964 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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84k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) moored pierside at NOB Norfolk, VA, August 1964 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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185k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
Mike Smolinski | |
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91k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) at anchor, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine December 1964. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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1184k | Personnel transfer via high-line between USS Diamond Head (AE-19) and USS Chikaskia (AO-54) while underway in the Mediterranean Sea, 1965 Photo from the collections of HM1 John Wagner, RADM E. L. Feightner, BM2 Charles Peterman, and LCDR Al Gordon, compiled and edited by BM3 David Zanzinger. |
Al Gordon, Secretary USS Chikaskia Reunion Organization | |
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126k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) being assisted by Okmulgee (YTB-765) as she is coming alongside USS Amphion (AR-13) (not shown) for repairs in January 1967 at the "Army Piers" (Norfolk International Terminal), Norfolk, VA. To accommodate Diamond Head alongside the repair ship USS Plymouth Rock (LSD-29) is being moved by an unidentified tug, just visible in the far right side of the photo. | George McLeer USS Amphion 1966-68, R-4 Div Electronics Repair Shop | |
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73k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) underway during a replenishment at sea with USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), circa 1967, location unknown. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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69k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) underway during a replenishment at sea with a destroyer, date and location unknown. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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181k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) underway at Hampton Roads, June 1968. Photo courtesy of Atlantic Fleet Sales, Norfolk, VA., ©Nobe Smith. |
Bill Gonyo | |
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82k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) at anchor, date and location unknown. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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75k | USS Diamond Head (AE-19) moored pierside, date and location unknown. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. |
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Commanding Officers | ||
LT. Guyon, Elmer Edward, USNR (Ferry Command Crew # 1) | 10 March 1945 - 14 March 1945 | |
Decommissioned | 14 March 1945 - 9 August 1945 | |
01 | LCDR. Snow, Franklin Charles, USNR | 9 August 1945 - 23 August 1946 |
Decommissioned | 23 August 1946 - 9 August 1951 | |
02 | CAPT. Smiley, Clare Brown (32) | 9 August 1951 - October 1952 |
03 | CAPT. Veasey, Alexander Craig | October 1952 - October 1953 |
04 | CAPT. Taylor, Robert Lee | no dates |
05 | CAPT. Sunderland, Morton, USN (32) | September 1955 |
06 | CAPT. Scott II, James (35) | December 1956 - ? |
10 | CAPT. Swanson, Chandler Waterman | August 1959 - July 1962 |
11 | CAPT. Lacouture, John Edwin (Tiger One) | July 1962 - August 1963 |
13 | CAPT. Ruiz, Charles Kenneth | 14 August 1964 - August 1965 |
16 | CAPT. Knott Jr., Zebulon Vance (Zeb) | January 1967 - 14 March 1968 |
17 | CAPT. King, Herbert Thomas | 14 March 1968 - 28 August 1969 |
18 | CAPT. Snead II, Leonard Alexander (Swoose) :RADM | 28 August 1969 - 11 September 1970 |
19 | CAPT. Lyon, Henry J. USN (USMMA-42) | 11 September 1970 - 24 March 1972 |
20 | LCDR. Long, Charles Woodfern, USN | 24 March 1972 - 1 June 1972 |
21 | CDR. Harris, James Wesley | 1 June 1972 - February 1973 |
22 | LCDR. Ablowich, Dean Allen | February 1973 - 1 March 1973 |
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