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USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway with assault helicopters ranged on deck, apparently
HUS Seahorses forward and HR2S Deuces aft, circa January-February 1959, probably off the coast of Cuba. Embarked units included 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines.
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 shore leave had been scheduled for several months. (U.S. Navy Photo via APWire photo." |
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USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway, date and location unknown. |
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USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway, date and location unknown. |
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USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway, date and location unknown. |
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USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway during operations off Vieques Island with the Tenth Provisional Marine Brigade, 8 March 1959.
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U.S. Marine Corps HUS-1 helicopters lift off form USS Boxer (LPH-4)'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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USS Boxer (LPH-4) and USS Intrepid (CVA-11) are in the background of this photo of US 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, USS Boxer (LPH-4) 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, USS Rankin (AKA-103); Dock Landing
Ship, USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30); Amphibious Assault Ship, USS Boxer (LPH-4); Tank Landing Ship, USS Graham County (LST-1176); and High Speed Transport, USS Kirwin (APD-90). Photographed by PH2 A.P. Gonthier, Jr. US Navy photo # NH 97284. |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, USS Boxer (LPH-4) coming alongside the port side of USS Rigal (AF-58) |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, USS Boxer (LPH-4) taking station along port side of USS Rigal (AF-58) |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, unrep underway USS Boxer (LPH-4) taking on supplies for USS Rigal (AF-58) |
Jim McCoy |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, starboard bow of USS Boxer (LPH-4), unrep completed Boxer beginning to pull away from USS Rigal (AF-58) |
Jim McCoy |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, unrep completed and USS Boxer (LPH-4) pulls away from USS Rigal (AF-58) |
Jim McCoy |
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October 1964, Steelpike I, USS Boxer (LPH-4) approx. 1500 yards off USS Rigal (AF-58)'s port side |
Jim McCoy |
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USS 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.
US Navy photo. |
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USS 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 |
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USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway, location unknown. Boxer parades her Marines, their light vehicles (near island), and helicopters.
US Navy photo from "Aircraft Carriers" by Norman Polmar. |
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Sikorsky HUS (H-34) and HR2S (H-37) helicopters on the flight deck of USS Boxer (LPH-4).
US Navy photo from "Aircraft Carriers" by Norman Polmar. |
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USS Boxer (LPH-4) right, moored across from the aircraft carrier USS America (CVA-66) at Pier No. 11, Naval Operating Base Norfolk, 1 October 1969. America had just completed a Drydocking Selected Restricted Availability (DSRA) at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (since 24 January 1969). Boxer was decommissioned two months later, on 1 December 1969.
Official U.S. Navy photograph, available from DefenseImagery.mil (id. DN-ST-88-04340). |
Robert M. Cieri |
