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AS-2 / AG-32 Bushnell
AG-32 / AGS-5 Sumner

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive (8MAR45 Iwo Jima) - China Service Medal (extended) - World War I Victory Medal (with Patrol clasp)
Second Row - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal
Personnel Awards

Purple Heart (1-KIA, 3-WIA 8March 1945 Iwo Jima)
Bushnell Class Submarine Tender:
  • Laid down, (date unknown) at Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Co., Seattle, WA.
  • Launched, 9 February 1915
  • Commissioned , 24 November 1915, LT. D. F. Boyd in Command
  • Designated (AS-2), 17 July 1920
  • Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary, (AG-32), 25 July 1940
  • Renamed USS Sumner (AG-32), 23 August 1940
  • Reclassified Survey Ship (AGS-5), 1 December 1943
  • During World War II Sumner was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following actions and campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Pearl Harbor-Midway, 7 December 1941 Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 4 March to 13 May 1945
    Gilbert Islands operation
    Tarawa, 5 December 1943 to 13 February 1944     		.

  • Decommissioned, 13 September 1946, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal, 19 September 1946
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Sumner received three battle stars for her World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 3,142 t.
    Length 350' 6"
    Beam 45' 8"
    Draft 19' 6"
    Speed 14 kts.
    Complement 151
    Armament four single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, two 21" torpedo tubes
    Propulsion system unknown
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    USS Bushnell (AS-2)
    Bushnell 64k Bushnell (AS-2) off Norfolk Navy Yard, 18 April 1936
    US Navy photo         		.
    Bushnell 98k Bushnell (AS-2) underway, date and place unknown. Courtesy Randy Guttery Tendertales Web Site
    Bushnell 29k Bushnell (AS-2) at anchor, date and place unknown Hyperwar US Navy in WWII Web Site
    Savannah 92k Control Force submarines and their tenders at Christobal, Panama Canal Zone, circa 1923. The tenders are (from left to right): Savannah (AS-8), Bushnell (AS-2), Beaver (AS-5) and Camden (AS-6). Submarines are mostly "R" type boats, among them R-23 (SS-100) and R-25 (SS-102), both in the nest alongside Savannah's port quarter. The larger submarine alongside Savannah's bow may be S-1 (SS-105), with her large seaplane hangar. Photo by A.E. Wells.
    US Navy photo # NH 42573 courtesy of CDR. Christopher Noble, USN (Retired), 1967. From the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Bushnell 76k Bushnell (AS-2) at anchor, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Robert Hurst
    USS Sumner (AGS-5)
    Bushnell 50k Sumner (AGS-5) at anchor, date and place unknown
    US Navy photo from DANFS.         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
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