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| Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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| Vietnam Defense
9 to 17 September 1965 | Vietnamese Counteroffensive
20 to 23 May 1966 10 to 12 June 1966 |
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89k | USS 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." |
Robert Hurst | |
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148k | USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway, date and location unknown. | . | |
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272k | USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway, date and location unknown. | . | |
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48k | USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway, date and location unknown. | Joe Fyke | |
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77k | USS Boxer (LPH-4) underway during operations off Vieques Island with the Tenth Provisional Marine Brigade, 8 March 1959. US Navy photo |
Robert M. Cieri | |
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124k | 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 |
US Naval Historical Center | |
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270k | 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. | Image courtesy of Larry Blumenthal, PH3, 1957-61. "US Navy Photos" |
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149k | 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 |
US Naval Historical Center | |
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125k | "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. | US Naval Historical Center | |
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271k | October 1964, Steelpike I, USS Boxer (LPH-4) coming alongside the port side of USS Rigal (AF-58) | Jim McCoy | |
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257k | October 1964, Steelpike I, USS Boxer (LPH-4) taking station along port side of USS Rigal (AF-58) | Jim McCoy | |
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202k | October 1964, Steelpike I, unrep underway USS Boxer (LPH-4) taking on supplies for USS Rigal (AF-58) | Jim McCoy | |
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272k | October 1964, Steelpike I, starboard bow of ISS Boxer (PPH-4), unrep completed Boxer beginning to pull away from USS Rigal (AF-58) | Jim McCoy | |
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249k | October 1964, Steelpike I, unrep completed and USS Boxer (LPH-4) pulls away from USS Rigal (AF-58) | Jim McCoy | |
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380k | 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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136k | 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. |
Juan M. Felix | |
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99k | 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 | |
| Commanding Officers | |
| CAPT. Parker Jr., Edwin Byron, | 11.08.1959 - 19.09.1960 |
| CAPT. Stebbins, Edgar Erwin, | 19.09.1960 - 00.02.1961 |
| CAPT. Wallace, James Bruce, | 00.02.1961 - 00.01.1963 |
| CAPT. Deacon, Edward Thorp, | 00.01.1963 - 00.01.1964 |
| CAPT. Walline, Charles Sayer, | 00.01.1964 - 08.01.1965 |
| CAPT. Sessums, Walter M. | 08.01.1965 - 00.01.1966 |
| CAPT. Morton, Albert Oakes, | 00.01.1966 - 31.01.1967 |
| CAPT. Cooke, Henry J. Hosmer, | 31.01.1967 - 31.01.1968 |
| CAPT. Hunt, Robert Foster, | 31.01.1968 - 11.03.1969 |
| CAPT. Lampman, Lester Boggess, | 11.03.1969 - 30.10.1969 |
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