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Boxer (LPH-4) underway with assault helicopters ranged on deck, apparently
HUS Seahorses forward and HR2S Deuces aft, date and location unknown. Note that she
still has her carrier hull number: from time to time in 1957 and 1958, the Navy made available carrier
decks for use by Marine helicopters in amphibious training exercises.
Original Caption from AP Wire Service
" WILL PUT IN AT GUANTANAMO, CUBA -- This is the USS Boxer which the U.S. Navy said today will put in at Guantanamo, Cuba, this weekend. About 1,500 Marines taking part in an amphibious group training in the Caribbean, will go ashore for rest and recreation. A spokesman said that the shoreleave had been scheduled for several months. (U.S. Navy Photo via APWire photo." |
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Boxer (LPH-4) underway, date and location unknown. |
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Boxer (LPH-4) underway, date and location unknown. |
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Boxer (LPH-4) underway, date and location unknown. |
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Boxer (LPH-4) underway during operations off Vieques Island with the Tenth Provisional Marine Brigade, 8 March 1959.
US Navy photo |
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U.S. Marine Corps HUS-1 helicopters lift off Boxer's flight
deck, during operations off Vieques Island with the Tenth Provisional Marine Brigade, 8 March 1959.
Photograph by Grantham. US Navy photo # NH 97288 |
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Boxer (LPH-4) and Intrepid (CVA-11) are in the background of this photo of Mosopelea (ATF-158) underway at NOB Norfolk, with the SERVLANT Salvage Barge in tow, circa 1961. |
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Larry Blumenthal, PH3, 1957-61.
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August 1965, Mayport, Florida, Boxer seen here just prior to departing for Vietnam with elements of the Army's First Cavalry Division on board. She carried 1200 personnel, 205 helicopters and 6 OV-1 airplanes to the combat zone. Aircraft on her flight deck include 6 OV-1 (dark colored-forward); 4 CH-54 (white-just forward of island); 56 CH-47 (dark colored-amidships and aft) and 36 UH-1 (white-amidships and forward). The remaining 109 helicopters are presumably stowed on Boxer' hangar deck.
Official U.S. Army Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. US Navy photo # NH 97285 |
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"Carib 1-68 Patrol" Caribbean Ready Group steams in formation as it patrols the Caribbean Sea. Commanded by Capt. J.B. Drachnik, USN, Commander Amphibious Squadron Four. Homeported in Norfolk, Va., are: (l-r) Attack Cargo Ship, Rankin (AKA-103); Dock Landing
Ship, Fort Snelling (LSD-30); Amphibious Assault Ship, Boxer (LPH-4); Tank Landing Ship, Graham County (LST-1176); and High Speed Transport, Kirwin (APD-90). Photographed by PH2 A.P. Gonthier, Jr. US Navy photo # NH 97284. |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, Boxer (LPH-4) coming alongside the port side of Rigal (AF-58) |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, Boxer (LPH-4) taking station along port side of Rigal (AF-58) |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, unrep underway Boxer (LPH-4) taking on supplies for Rigal (AF-58) |
Jim McCoy |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, starboard bow of Boxer, unrep completed Boxer (LPH-4) beginning to pull away from Rigal (AF-58) |
Jim McCoy |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, unrep completed and Boxer (LPH-4) pulls away from Rigal (AF-58) |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, Boxer (LPH-4) approx. 1500 yards off Rigal (AF-58)'s port side |
Jim McCoy |
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Boxer (LPH-4) underway in the Caribbean Sea, circa 1965, possibly during the Dominican Republic Intervention. The airborne UH-34 Seahorse Helicopter and those on Boxer's deck belong to Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264.
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Boxer (LPH-4) at anchor off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, 5 December 1966. H-34 Seahorse Helicopters of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365 line her flight deck.
US Navy photo # USN-1125049 from the US Naval Photographic Center, Naval Station, Washington, DC. |
Robert M. Cieri |
