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| Campaigns and Dates | Campaigns and Dates |
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| Vietnamese Counteroffensive-Phase V Campaign
25 July to 16 August 1968 |
Vietnamese Counteroffensive-Phase VII Campaign
23 March to 13 April 1971 |
| Vietnam Winter-Summer 1970 Campaign
27 December 1969 to 21 January 1970 |
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109k | USS Jason (ARH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown. Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax. US Navy photo |
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71k | USS Jason (ARH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown. Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, March 1951. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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105k | USS Jason (ARH-1) underway, circa 1945, Pacific Ocean. Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax. US Navy photo. |
Robert M. Cieri | |
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107k | USS Jason (ARH-1) with a carrier alongside; possibly at Ulithi between, 26 January to 7 February 1945. USS Hancock (CV-19) spent those days alongside Jason while undergoing repairs after an accidental explosion on her flight deck on 21 January 1945. US Navy photo from DANFS. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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155k | USS Jason (ARH-1) at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 13 March 1945 with USS Randolph (CV-15) alongside. Note the damage to the after flight deck of Randolph resulting from a kamikaze hit on 11 March 1945. Photographed from a USS Miami
(CL-89) float plane. Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax. US National Archives photo # 80-G-344531, a US Navy photo now in the collection of the US National Archives. |
Scott Dyben | |
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365k | USS Jason (ARH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown. Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax. US Navy photo |
David Buell | |
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190k | USS Jason (ARH-1) underway, date and location unknown. Note Jason is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 4Ax. US Navy photo |
David Buell | |
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152k | USS Jason (ARH-1) underway during the 1950s while still classified as the Navy's only heavy hull repair ship (ARH). Her appearance was essentially identical to that of her repair ship (AR) sisters. US Navy photo # USN 1106431 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command |
Robert Hurst | |
| USS Jason (AR-8) |
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83k | USS Jason (AR-8) underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Robert M. Cieri | |
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115k | USS Jason (AR-8) off Point Loma departing San Diego, CA., date unknown. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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475k | USS Jason (AR-8) underway while entering San Diego Bay, late 1950s. US Navy photo. |
David Buell | |
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46k | USS Jason (AR-8) pierside, at Pearl Harbor, HI., date unknown. | Brian O'Connor, MM1 (SW/DV) USN Ret. | |
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143k | USS Jason (AR-8) moored pierside, date and location unknown. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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105k | USS Jason (AR-8) arriving at Yokohama, Japan circa June 1960. Jason relieved USS Ajax as flagship of COMSERVRON 3 home ported at Sasebo Japan. Ajax and Jason met at Yokohama and COMSERVRON 3 moved into Jason for three months while Ajax completed a yard availability at Naval Shipyard Yokosuka. | Russell Cole ex ET2 | |
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42k | USS Jason (AR-8) moored at Naval Station Subic Bay, Philippines with Coast Guard cutters of Coast Guard Squadron Three alongside, circa 1967. From inboard to outboard: USCGC Half Moon (WHEC-378); USCGC Yakutat (WHEC-380); USCGC Gresham (WHEC-387); USCGC Barataria (WHEC-381) and USCGC Bering Strait (WHEC-382) |
Robert Hurst | |
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43k | USS Jason (AR-8) at anchor off Vung Tau, South Vietnam in June 1968 with USS Woodpecker (MSC-209) alongside. U.S. Navy photo by PH3 R. L. Yager from the January 1969 edition of "All Hands" magazine |
Steven Hessman | |
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30k | USS Jason (AR-8) in the channel departing Pearl Harbor, HI., date unknown. | Brian O'Connor, MM1 (SW/DV) USN Ret. | |
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225k | USS Jason (AR-8) moored pierside, circa 1970s, location unknown. | Kathleen Capps | |
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66k | USS Jason (AR-8), with USS Beaufort (ATS-2) alongside, at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, circa 1981 | Photo by Brian O'Connor, MM1 (SW/DV) USN Ret | |
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75k | USS Jason (AR-8) pierside San Diego, CA., date unknown. | Brian O'Connor, MM1 (SW/DV) USN Ret. | |
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79k | USS Jason (AR-8) off Point Loma departing San Diego, CA., date unknown. | Brian O'Connor, MM1 (SW/DV) USN Ret. | |
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59k | USS Jason (AR-8) moored at pier 16 Naval Station Long Beach CA., date unknown. | Photo by Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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54k | USS Jason (AR-8) moored pierside at San Diego, CA., date unknown. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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106k | USS Jason (AR-8) underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr | |
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1887k | USS Jason (AR-8) underway in-bound to San Diego Bay, circa 1980s. This photo was taken after her 5"/38 guns were removed circa 1974. Note that the mainmast is now a tall tripod. US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command |
Wolfgang Hechler (gifts from CAPTs. Cleal (1992) and Haigis (1994) respectively | |
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80k | USS Jason (AR-8) moored pierside, 1988, location unknown. | Nick Napzok ex-EM3 USN | |
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40k | USS Jason (AR-8) at San Diego in October 1994 | Dale C. Haskin | |
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32k | Ex-USS Jason (AR-8) in decommissioned status | ||
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272k | Ex-USS Jason (AR-8) laid up in reserve in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., date unknown. US Maritime Administration photos |
Ron Reeves | |
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178k | Ex-USS Jason (AR-8) moored at the former NAS Alameda prior to being towed, commencing 12 Janaury 2007, to Marine Metals Inc., Brownsville, TX. for scrapping | Photos by Mike McCullough | |
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52k | Ex-USS Jason (AR-8) under tow in San Francisco Bay, 12 January 2007, by the tug Marine Commander. Jason was enroute to the scrappers yard, Marine Metals Inc., Brownsville, TX. | Photo by CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG (Ret.) | |
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54k | Ex-USS Jason (AR-8) under tow in San Francisco Bay, 12 January 2007, while enroute to the scrappers yard, Marine Metals Inc., Brownsville, TX. | Photo by CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG (Ret.) | |
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69k | Ex-USS Jason (AR-8) arriving at Marine Metals Inc., Brownsville, TX., 1 March 2007, for scrapping. Photo by Mike Martin, Brownsville, TX. |
TJ Tropea | |
| USS Jason Additional Ships Patches Contributed by Mike Smolinski |
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