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| Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
|---|---|
| Leyte operation
Leyte landings, October 1944 3rd Fleet supporting operations Okinawa Attack, October 1944 | Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, March to June 1945 |
| Luzon operation
3rd Fleet supporting operations - Formosa attacks, January 1945 | 3rd Fleet operations against Japan
July to August 1945 |
| Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
|---|---|
| UN Summer-Fall Offensive
9 to 15 and 25 to 31 October 1951 16 to 25 November 1951 | Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952
20 to 29 October 1952 4 to 10 and 23 to 30 November 1952 1 December 1952 |
| Second Korean Winter
13 to 26 December 1951 7 to 25 January 1952 2 to 10 February 1952 | Third Korean Winter
16 to 22 December 1952 26 February to 5 March 1953 18 to 27 March 1953 9 to 17 April 1953 |
| Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
|---|---|
| Vietnam Defense
4 to 7, 10 to 16 and 20 to 27 July 1965 2 to 10 August 1965 | Sanctuary Counteroffensive
3 to 23 May 1970 25 May to 3 June 1970 8 to 11 June 1970 |
| Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969
15 to 22 June 1969 1 July 1969 | Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII
11 to 20 and 23 to 30 July 1970 8 to 16 August 1970 24 August to 2 September 1970 |
| Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970
24 to 31 March 1970 6 to 13 and 21 to 29 April 1970 | Consolidation I
21 August to 19 September 1971 |
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| USS Taluga (AO-62) |
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127k | USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling Pacific Fleet ships during World War II, dates and locations unknown. | Tommy R. Trampp SK3 USS Taluga | |
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145k | Kamikaze Suicide Plane Attack on USS Taluga (AO-62), 13 April 1945. 091906212 - 091906213 - 091906214 Clearing away the wreckage of the suicide plane and pilots remains. 091906215 - Suicide planes propeller imbedded in catwalk 091906216 - part of the planes wing stuck in the ship's mast |
Tommy R. Trampp SK3 USS Taluga | |
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122k | USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2). US Navy photo |
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142k | USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling USS Oriskany (CVA-34) and USS Charles P. Cecil (DD-835). US Navy photo |
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265k | USS Taluga (AO-62) at anchor, circa 1951, location unknown. | Submitted by Derick S. Hartshorn, courtesy LTjg. Jerome Bolick USN Ret. | |
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124k | Overhead view of USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling an unidentified Essex class aircraft carrier and destroyer. US Navy photo |
Edward H. Cleary | |
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121k | USS Taluga (AO-62) underway, circa 1957 to 1961, location unknown. | Tommy R. Trampp SK3 USS Taluga | |
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219k | USS Taluga (AO-62) underway alongside an unidentified aircraft carrier in rough seas, circa 1962 to 1973, probably off the coast of North or South Vietnam. | Tommy R. Trampp SK3 USS Taluga | |
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304k | USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling USS Hancock (CVA-19) and an unidentified destroyer off the coast of Japan in February 1967. Note the Soviet trawler (spy ship) in the distance. | Photo by Charles "Bud" Dehnert USS Hancock | |
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62k | USS Taluga (AO-62) moored outboard of another AO at Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippines Islands in 1967. Photo taken from USS Bausell (DD-845) |
Photo by Lee Noland STGC, USN Ret. USS Bausell. | |
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316k | Photo of the bridge area of USS Taluga (AO-62) while alongside USS Evans (DE-1023) during a refueling evolution during a WESTPAC deployment in April 1967. | Photo by Darryl Baker | |
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350k | USS Taluga (AO-62)drops away after refueling USS Evans (DE-1023) during a WESTPAC deployment in April 1967. Photo taken from USS Evans. | Photo by Darryl Baker | |
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68k | USCGC Minnetonka (WHEC-62) going alongside USS Taluga (AO-62) for refueling off the coast of South Vietnam, 1968. | Tommy R. Trampp SK3 USS Taluga | |
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117k | USS Taluga (AO-62) coming alongside USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) off the coast of Vietnam, circa 1965 to 1971. | Tommy R. Trampp SK3 USS Taluga | |
| USNS Taluga (T-AO-62) |
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49k | USNS Taluga (T-AO-62) underway at San Diego, CA. with the assistance of tugs. | Photo by Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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536k | USNS Taluga (T-AO-62) refueling USS Vancouver (LPD-2) in the Gulf of Siam during Operation Eagle Pull in March 1975. | Photo by Richard Spring, CMDCM (SW/AW) USN Ret. | |
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381k | Stern view of USNS Taluga (T-AO-62) moored pierside, at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, HI., November 1981. | Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
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