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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941 | Coral Sea, 4 to 8 May 1942 |
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292k | Launching of Neosho (AO-23) at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey, 29 April 1939. US Navy photo #'s 200(S) LA-1 (page 5), 200(S) LA-1 (page 6) and 200(S) LA-1 (page 7) 200(S) LA is from a donation entitled, “Admiral Land’s Albums of Merchant Ship Construction, 1938-1949.” |
Michael Mohl | |
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415k | Launching of Neosho (AO-23) at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey, 29 April 1939.
Color drawing that resembles the aft part of the ship on page five of pamphlet. US Navy photo #'s 200(S) LA-1 (page 7). 200(S) LA is from a donation entitled, “Admiral Land’s Albums of Merchant Ship Construction, 1938-1949.” |
Michael Mohl | |
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162k | USS Neosho (AO-23) as delivered to the US Navy in August 1939. View looking forward from after deck house shows complex piping typically found on oilers. A US National Archives photo from "Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy 1912 - 1992", by Thomas Wildenburg. |
Robert Hurst | |
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84k | USS Neosho (AO-23) just after commissioning, 7 August1939. US Navy photo NH 63448 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center |
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86k | USS Neosho (AO-23) under way at New York City, date unknown. Photo courtesy Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages |
Robert Hurst | |
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293k | USS Neosho (AO-23), cautiously backs away from her berth (right center) in a successful effort to escape the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. At left the battleship USS California (BB-44) lists after aerial blows. Other crippled warships and part of the hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37) may be seen in the background. US Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division digital ID fsa.8e01821, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US Library of Congress. |
Robert Hurst | |
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46k | USS Neosho (AO-23) under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
David Merrill | |
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20k | USS Neosho (AO-23) refueling USS Yorktown (CV-5), 1 May 1942, shortly before the Battle of Coral Sea. Note use of Yorktown's aircraft crane to support her end of the refueling rig. US National Archives photo # 80-G-464653, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
US Naval Historical Center | |
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23k | a wave breaks over main deck, engulfing hose crew, as USS Neosho (AO-23) refuels USS Yorktown (CV-5) early in May 1942, shortly before the Battle of Coral Sea. US National Archives photo # 80-G-13106, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. | US Naval Historical Center | |
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20k | USS Neosho (AO-23) refueling USS Yorktown (CV-5) in heavy seas shortly before the Battle of Coral Sea. US National Archives photo # 80-G-16444, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
US Naval Historical Center | |
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754k | Aerial view of USS Neosho (AO-23) on fire and sinking in the Coral Sea after an attack by Imperial Japanese Navy dive bombers, 7 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea. From Wikimedia Commons. Photo from "Beyond Pearl Harbor: The Untold Stories of Japan's Naval Airmen", by Ron Werneth, Schiffer Military History, Atglen, PA, 2008, p. 66. (Japanese Defense Agency, War History Section photo). |
Charles Ainsworth |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | CDR. Mullan, William Evans Anthony, USN (USNA 1920) | 7 August 1939 - 19 June 1941 |
02 | CDR. Phillips, John Spinning :RADM | 19 June 1941 - 11 May 1942 (sink date) |
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