
| Campaign and Dates |
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| Third Fleet operations against Japan
10 to 18 July 1945 25 July to 15 August 1945 |
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149k | USS Thetis Bay (CVHA-1) Commissioning Ceremony Program | Robert M. Cieri | |
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80k | USS Thetis Bay (CVHA-1) underway, circa 1955-56. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1959 issue |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | |
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11k | USS Thetis Bay (CVHA-1) off Luzon, Philippine Islands,February. 1958, during vertical envelopment exercises with Marine Corps Test Unit 1 |
Charles Zarek Sgt. USMC 1956-1958 7th Comm BTN, 1st MAR DIV |
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| USS Thetis Bay (LPH-6) |
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26k | USS Thetis Bay (LPH-6) underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
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118k | USS Thetis Bay (LPH-6) underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
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84k | USS Thetis Bay (LPH-6) underway, sometime between May 1959 (when she was redesignated (LPH-6) and December 1961 when she was redeployed to the Atlantic Fleet and arrived at Norfolk), She has aboard Marine Squadron HMRL-163, ("YP" tail code) a Pacific Fleet squadron which became HMM-163 in February 1962. US Navy photo. |
Robert M. Cieri | |
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91k | USS Thetis Bay (LPH-6) moored pierside at Naval Station, San Diego, CA., May 1960. Photo taken from USS Kearsarge (CVS-33). | Photo by Gary R Schreffler | |
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320k | USS Thetis Bay (LPH-6) arriving in Hamburg, Germany in spring of 1963. Vessel was carrying special aircraft that was needed to accompany President John F. Kennedy during his legendary visit to Germany in June, 1963. | Gerhard Mueller-Debus | |
| Commanding Officers | |
| CAPT. South II, Thomas Winfield, ;RADM | 20 July 1956 - 19 April 1957 |
| CAPT. Compton, James Richard, | 19 April 1957 - 29 May 1958 |
| CAPT. Gillette Jr., Norman Campbell, :RADM | 29 May 1958 - 25 March 1959 |
| CAPT. Gibson, Charles Edward, | 25 March 1959 - 25 April 1960 |
| CAPT. Houck, Herbert Norman | 25 April 1960 - 17 February 1961 |
| CAPT. Curtis Jr., Walter L. :VADM | 17 February 1961 - 18 February 1962 |
| CAPT. Epes Jr., Horace Hardaway, ;RADM | 18 February 1961 - 30 March 1963 |
| CAPT. Hanley Jr., Michael Joseph, | 30 March 1963 - 20 February 1964 |
| CAPT. Dumas, Glenn Irven. | 20 February 1964 - 31 March 1964 |
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