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| Invasion of Normandy, 6 June to 21 July 1944
Task Group 122.3 - Salvage and Fire Fighting Group (Wreck Dispersal Vessel) | Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 7 May to ? |
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28k | USS Bannock (AT-81) commissioning ceremony, 28 June 1943, at Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston, S.C. US Navy photo |
Alan Owen | |
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28k | USS Bannock (ATF-81) underway, 26 August 1944, location unknown. US Navy photo |
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52k | USS Bannock (ATF-81) at the scene of the sinking of USS Meredith (DD-726), off Utah Beach, 9 June 1944. Meredith struck a mine off Utah Beach, 8 June 1944 and was sunk the following day by German aircraft. Note, just across the midship area of the 83' patrol boat is the stern, and over the bow, is the overturned bow of Meredith. US Navy photo |
Michael Feagin in honor of his father Byron Feagin USS Bannock | |
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1386k | Ex-USS Bannock (ATF-81) in Italian Coast Guard service drydocked at Genoa, Italy, 26 January 1969 | Photo by Carlo Martinelli | |
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65k | C.P. 451 Bannock in 1999 | Submitted by Elizabeth Piet and Alex Sinke to NAFTS (National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors) |
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48k | C.P. 451 Bannock in service with the Italian Customs Service, date and location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
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69k | C.P. 451 Bannock laid up at Naples, Italy. In a message from Guardia Costiera. ".. regarding your mail of 07/03/2005 we inform you that the ship is in 'disarmament' and that she is in the Naples Port. We send the photo of the ship." | Michael Feagin in honor of his father Byron Feagin USS Bannock | |
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