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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Marianas operation
Capture and occupation of Guam, 21 July to 8 August 1944 | Leyte operation
Leyte landings, 20 October 1944 |
Western Caroline Islands operation
Capture and occupation of Palau Islands - Peleliu, 6 September to 14 October 1944 |
Korean War Campaign |
Campaign and Dates |
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Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952
17 May to 7 June1952 18 to 25 July 1952 8 to 17 August 1952 5 to 23 September 1952 29 September to 5 October 1952 14 October to 3 November 1952 |
Vietnam War Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV
11 to 14 June 1968 23 to 30 June 1968 | Vietnam Winter-Sprint 1970
10 to 22 November 1969 |
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V
1 to 10 July 1968 | Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII
10 November to 19 December 1970 10 to 11 March 1971 |
Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969
1 July 1969 24 August to 12 October 1969 |
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45k | USS Grapple (ARS-7) drydocked in 1957, location unknown. Photos courtesy National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors, contributed by Bob Hall. |
Robert Hurst | |
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49k | USS Grapple (ARS-7) under way, at Pearl Harbor, date unknown. Photos courtesy National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors, contributed by Craig Rothhammer. |
Robert Hurst | |
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27k | USS Grapple (ARS-7) moored pierside, date and location unknown. | Bob Hall via NAFTS National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors |
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33k | USS Grapple (ARS-7) under way, date and location unknown. | NAFTS Collection National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors |
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25k | USS Grapple (ARS-7) under way with a tow, date and location unknown. | Ed Armijo | |
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119k | Rescue and Salvage ships USS Grapple (ARS-7),
USS Conserver (ARS-39),
the Submarine Rescue Ship USS Greenlet (ASR-10) and the Fleet Tugs USS Cocopa (ATF-101) and
USS Sioux (ATF-75) attempting to pull the Destroyer
USS Frank Knox (DD-742) off Pratas Reef in the South China Sea, some two hundred miles south east of Hong Kong. Frank Know ran aground 18 July 1965 and was finally refloated, 24 August 1965. This view was probably taken at about the time she was finally refloated on 24 August 1965. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 74179. |
Tony Cowart | |
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129k | USS Grapple (ARS-7) under way, circa 1968, location unknown. US Navy photo by PHCM L. P. Bodine. |
Robert Hurst | |
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123k | USS Grapple (ARS-7) under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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118k | USS Grapple (ARS-7) under way, circa 1969, location unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1969, p.25. |
Robert Hurst | |
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103k | Ex-USS Grapple (ARS-7) in the Republic of China service as ROCS Da Hu (ARS-552) moored pierside in Keelung, Taiwan Harbor, 13 June 2006. | Perry Huang | |
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384k | ROCS Da Hu (ARS-552) moored pierside in Keelung, Taiwan Harbor, 13 June 2006. | Perry Huang | |
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353k | ROCS Da Hu (ARS-552) moored pierside in Keelung, Taiwan Harbor, 13 June 2006. | Perry Huang | |
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384k | ROCS Da Hu (ARS-552) moored pierside in Keelung, Taiwan Harbor, 13 June 2006. | Perry Huang |
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Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT. Fisher, Robert, USN | 16 December 1943 - 11 November 1944 |
02 | LT. Thurman, Robert Kenneth, USNR | 11 November 1944 - 6 July 1945 |
03 | LT. Smith, Joe Nelson, USN | 6 July 1945 - 9 October 1945 |
04 | LT. Scoville, Charles Arthur, USN | 9 October 1945 - January 1946 |
05 | LTjg. Owens, William Francis, USNR | January 1946 - 27 February 1946 |
06 | LT. Hale, James Charles, USN | 27 February 1946 - 30 August 1946 |
Decommissioned | 30 August 1946 - 20 December 1951 | |
07 | LT. Coniam, Roy, USN | 20 December 1951 - 1952 |
08 | CDR. Clark, Charles Robert, USN (USNA 1939) | 1952 - 1953 |
09 | CDR. Talley Sr., William Odell, USN | ? - January 1957 |
10 | CDR. Wright, Gerald Taylor, USNR | January 1957 - April 1959 |
11 | LCDR. Radcliffe, Robert John, USN | April 1959 - November 1960 |
12 | LCDR. Clark, Carroll Doyle, USN | November 1960 - 1962 |
13 | LCDR. Adams Jr., Robert Lee, USN (USNA 1951) | 1962 - 1963 |
14 | LCDR. Hale, James Charles, USN | 1963 - 1964 |
15 | LCDR. Minnich, Donald Ellsworth, USN | 1964 - 10 May 1967 |
16 | LCDR. Jarrett, Edwin Bruce, USN | 10 May 1967 - 14 March 1968 |
17 | LCDR. Pilcher, Charles Robert, USN | 14 March 1969 - 8 December 1971 |
18 | LCDR. Lonnon, Lawrence Walter, USN | 8 December 1971 - 1974 |
19 | LCDR. Blackmon, Thomas Lester, USN | 1974 - 1975 |
20 | LCDR. Cass, Dudley Eugene, USN | 1975 - 1977 |
21 | LCDR. Shanahan, James Francis, USN (USNA 1964) | 1977 - September 1977 |
22 | LT. Smith, Chester Burton, USN | September 1977 - 1 December 1977 |
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