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| Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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| North Africa occupation
Algeria-Morocco landings, 8 to 11 November 1942 | Luzon operation
Formosa attacks, 15 January 1945 |
| Iwo Jima operation
Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 23 February to 7 March 1945 | |
| Okinawa operation
5th and 3d Fleet raids in support of Okinawa Gunto operation, 8 April to 11 June 1945 Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 12 to 21 June 1945 | |
| 3d Fleet operations against Japan, 11 July to 3 August 1945 |
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| USS Housatonic (AO-35) |
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94k | USS Housatonic (AO-35) off Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., 12 September 1942. Her camouflage is measure 12(modified). US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, photo # 19-N-34862 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Mike Green | |
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34k | USS Housatonic (AO-35) underway, 21 October 1942, location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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34k | USS Housatonic (AO-35) underway, date and location unknown. | Hyperwar US Navy in WWII | |
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27k | USS Housatonic (AO-35) coming alongside USS Ranger (CV-4) to begin a Replenishment at Sea, date and location unknown. | Hyperwar US Navy in WWII | |
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150k | Housatonic (AO-35) refueling Ranger (CV-4), date and location unknown. | Auke Visserīs ESSO Tanker web site | |
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890k | USS Housatonic (AO-35) refueling USS Wilkes (DD-441) date and location unknown. From the collection of William J. Mosher located at the National Destroyermens Museum housed aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850). |
Ed Zajkowski. | |
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401k | Ex-USS Housatonic (AO-35) as the Esso tanker SS Esso Bethlehem in port, location unknown, circa early 1950s. ©World Ship Society (W.S.S.) | Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
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347k | Ex-USS Housatonic (AO-35) as the Sea-Land container ship SS Los Angeles, location unknown, circa mid to late 1960s. ©the late Alex Duncan. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | LCDR. Boileau, Almerian Robinson | 9 January 1942- ? |
| 02 | CDR. Mather, Paul Luker :RADM | 1945- ? |
| 03 | LCDR. Ducat, John Reginald | WWII |
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