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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Western Caroline Islands operation
Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, 6 September to 14 October Assault on the Philippine Islands, 9 to 24 September 1944 | Iwo Jima operation
Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 26 February to 2 March 1945 |
Leyte operation
Northern Luzon and Formosa attacks, 11 to 14 October 1944 Luzon attacks, 15 October and 18 to 19 October 1944 | 3rd Fleet operations against Japan, 11 to 23 July and 9 to 15 August 1945 |
Luzon operation
Formosa attacks, 15 and 21 January 1945 China Coast attacks, 16 January 1945 Nansei Shoto attack, 22 January 1945 |
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Pamanset (War Shipping Administration) |
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48k | Pamanset being moved by tugs to her fitting out berth after launching, 25 June 1943, at Marinship, Sausalito, CA. US Maritime Commission photo courtesy Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages |
Robert Hurst | ||
56k | Pamanset entering her her fitting out berth Marinship, Sausalito, CA., 25 June 1943. US Maritime Commission photo courtesy Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages |
Robert Hurst | ||
USS Pamanset (AO-85) |
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53k | USS Pamanset (AO-85) at anchor probably off her conversion yard, Kaiser Swan Island Yard, Portland, OR., soon after completion as a
Fleet Tanker. She is painted in camouflage Measure 32 Design 3AO. US Maritime Commission photo courtesy Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages |
Robert Hurst | ||
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572k | USS Pamanset (AO-85) was at anchor in Ulithi Atoll, 20 November 1944 when USS Mississinewa (AO-59)
was attacked by a Japanese "Kaiten" human torpedo which caused the oiler to burn and sink.
US Navy photo. | Tommy Trampp | |
80-G-373716 |
141k | USS Pamanset (AO-85) struggles through an East China sea storm to refuel Task Force 38, 13 January 1945.
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) is in the distance. Photographed from
USS Essex (CV-9).
US National Archives, Photo No. 80-G-373716, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Mike Green Robert Hurst |
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146k | USS Pamanset (AO-85) under way, date and location unknown..
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 78580. Courtesy James Russell. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
399k | Ex-USS Pamanset (AO-85) working cargo at Subic Bay, Philippines, as the Seatrain Lines heavy-lift ship SS Seatrain Florida, circa 1971. Photo ©William Schell |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus, with permission |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | CDR. Houle, Donald James, USNR | 30 April 1944 - 2 December 1944 |
02 | LCDR. Gjedsted, Charles Byron, USNR | 2 December 1944 - 18 March 1946 |
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