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USS Sumner (AGS-5)
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 USS Sumner (AG-32) (1940 - 1943)
 USS Bushnell (AS-2) (1920 - 1940)
 USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) (1915 - 1920)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Charlie - Golf - Romeo
 NCGR
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 USS Sumner was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following actions/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 lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall VA., 19 September 1946
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 26 February 1948, to Patapsco Scrap Corp.
  • USS 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 (Submarine Tender #2)
    Bushnell 84k USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) at anchor in Bantry Bay, Ireland, with "L" type submarines alongside, 1918.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 52856.     		Robert Hurst
    Bushnell 129k USS Bushnell (Submarine Tender #2) at anchor hoisting USS L-2, in Irish waters during World War I.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 61684.     		Robert Hurst
    USS Bushnell (AS-2)
    Bushnell 98k USS Bushnell (AS-2) tending submarines at Gonaives, Haiti, 1924.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 74633.     		Robert Hurst
    Bushnell 64k USS Bushnell (AS-2) underway off Norfolk Navy Yard, 18 April 1936.
    US Navy photo    		  
    Bushnell 98k USS Bushnell (AS-2) underway, date and location unknown. Courtesy Randy Guttery Tendertales Web Site
    Bushnell 29k USS Bushnell (AS-2) at anchor, date and location unknown Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Savannah 92k Control Force submarines and their tenders at Christobal, Panama Canal Zone, circa 1923. The tenders are (from left to right): USS Savannah (AS-8), USS Bushnell (AS-2), USS Beaver (AS-5) and USS Camden (AS-6). Submarines are mostly "R" type boats, among them USS R-23 (SS-100) and USS R-25 (SS-102), both in the nest alongside Savannah's port quarter. The larger submarine alongside Savannah's bow may be USS 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 USS Bushnell (AS-2) at anchor, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Robert Hurst
    USS Sumner (AGS-5)
    Bushnell 50k USS Sumner (AGS-5) at anchor, date and location unknown
    US Navy photo from DANFS.         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    LST-737 1086k USS Sumner (AGS-5) moored at Pearl Harbor, circa 16 to 23 January 1946.
    Also present are:
    USS Bennington (CV-20) moored across the channel at NAS Ford Island,
    USS Troilus (AKA-46) moored astern of,
    USS Cape Gloucester (CVE-109),
    USS LST-1079 moored astern of
    USS LST-1070
    USS Terror (CM-5),
    USS LST-459 with LCT-1015 secured to her main deck, astern of
    USS LST-863
    Moored forward of LST-863 are an unidentified Minesweeper and two Rescue and Salvage ships
    The next pier has two unidentified ships, possibly AKs the Survey Ship USS Sumner (AGS-5), and two unidentified Minesweepers
    USS LST-737 moored astern of
    USS LST-45 moored astern of numerous Minesweepers and possibly
    USS Shipley Bay (CVE-85)
    US Navy photo BUAER photo # 496019 from "CINCPAC, Released 23 January 1946.    		 David Buell
    Commanding Officers
    LCDR. Boyd, David French,24 November 1915 - November 1916
    LCDR. Bowman, Mark Cooper,~1923 - ?
    CDR. Deem, Joseph Mason,? - 1932
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves
    View the USS Bushnell (AS-2)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Pearl Harbor Action Report
    Submarine Tenders of the United States Navy
    Navy Survey Ships (AGS)
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