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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Luzon operation
Formosa attacks, 3 to 4, 15 and 21 January 1945 Luzon attacks, 6 to 7 January 1945 China Coast attacks, 16 January 1945 Nansei Shoto attack, 22 January 1945 | Okinawa Gunto operation
5th and 3d Fleet raids in support of Okinawa Gunto operation, 16 March to 21 June 1945 Attack and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 24 March to 30 June 1945 |
Iwo Jima operation
Attack and occupation of Iwo Jima, 16 February to 2 March 1945 | 3d Fleet operations against Japan, 31 July to 15 August 1945 |
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USS Chicopee (AO-34) |
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117k | USS Chicopee (AO-34) near Norfolk Navy Yard, 16 August 1942. Markings indicate alterations made in the latest overhaul.
US National Archives, RG-19-LCM. Photo # 19-N-32722, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Robert Hurst | |
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146k | USS Chicopee (AO-34) coming alongside USS Ranger (CV-4) during February 1943. Ranger was enroute to North Africa to deliver US Army fighters. US National Archives Photo # 80-G-52828, a US Navy now in the collection of the US National Archives at College Park. |
Tracy White | |
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54k | USS Chicopee (AO-34) at Bizerte, Tunisia, 14 May 1944. | Stanley C. Svec | |
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132k | USS Chicopee (AO-34) at Oran, Algeria, 24 May 1944. | Stanley C. Svec | |
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57k | USS Chicopee (AO-34) during underway refueling of a destroyer, date and location unknown. | Hyperwar US Navy in WWII | |
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164k | USS Chicopee (AO-34) conducts a replenishment at sea with USS Wasp (CV-18), circa sometime in late
1944-early 1945. Courtesy US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum. Photo No. 1977.031.074.098, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | |
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583k | USS Chicopee (AO-34) refueling USS Intrepid (CV-11) to port while simultaneously refueling USS Norman Scott (DD-690) to starboard, Pacific Ocean, 10 April 1945 | Pieter Bakels | |
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125k | USS Chicopee (AO-34) serving with Service Squadron Six in the Okinawa area in May 1945.
US National Archives, RG-80-G. Photo # 80-G-350838, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Robert Hurst | |
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63k | USS Chicopee (AO-34) under way, date and location unknown. | Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
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39k | Ex-USS Chicopee (AO-34) under way as the Standard Oil of New Jersey tanker SS ESSO Chattanooga, date and location unknown. Photos courtesy Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages |
Robert Hurst | |
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167k | Ex-USS Chicopee (AO-34) under way as the Sea-Land Service Inc. containership SS San Francisco approaching her berth, date and location unknown. Originally copyrighted by Alex Duncan | Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
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225k | SS San Francisco under way in the Malacca Strait, early 1970s. Photo copyright Airfoto Malacca. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
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43k | Ex-USS Chicopee (AO-34) under way as the Sea-Land Service Inc. containership SS Sea-Land Adventurer, date and
location unknown. Photo courtesy Auke Vissar's Famous T-Tanker Pages |
Robert Hurst | |
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78k | Ex-USS Chicopee (AO-34) under way as SS Maersk Koper at Heraklion, Greece on 20 March 2006. | David Nixon |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | CAPT. Bannerman, Graeme | 9 February 1942 - 12 August 1943 |
02 | CDR. Brandt, Buell Fromern | 12 August 1943 - 18 December 1943 |
04 | LCDR. Peak, Charles Oscar | 18 December 1943 - 6 August 1945 |
04 | LCDR. Lehland, Trygve Mason | August 1945 - 14 February 1946 |
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