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Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign |
Campaign and Dates |
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Invasion of Normandy, 6 to 25 June 1944 |
Vietnam War |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II
22 April to 31 May 1967 | Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VI
13 to 19 December 1968 11 to 21 January 1969 |
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III
1 to 2 June 1967 2 to 29 September 1967 22 to 24 October 1967 11 to 14 November 1967 25 November to 5 December 1967 | Tet 69/ Counteroffensive
28 March to 21 April 1969 |
Tet Counteroffensive
21 February to 1 April 1968 | Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970
27 to 30 January 1970 19 to 22 February 1970 14 to 19 March 1970 |
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV
2 April to 12 May 1968 | Sanctuary Counteroffensive
24 to 30 June 1970 |
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V
30 July to 19 August 1968 30 August to 24 October 1968 | Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII
1 to 24 July 1970 |
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USS LST-980 |
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85k | USS LST-980 unloads an LVT during "Exercise Camid III", for an "assault" on Bloodsworth Island in the Chesapeake Bay. US Navy photo # USN-705980 released 20 August 1948. |
James D. Bass Jr. | |
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789k | USS LST-980 passing YMP-2 as she enters Chesapeake Bay in 1953. | Derick S. Hartshorn | |
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263k | USS LST-980 underway, circa 1950s, location unknown.
NH 84878, Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 84878, courtesy of William H. Davis, 1976 |
Mike Smolinski | |
USS Meeker County (LST-980) |
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92k | USS Meeker County (LST-980) underway, date and location unknown. | Dan Wilderman via Bob Flaugher | |
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117k | USS Meeker County (LST-980) moored inboard of USS Caroline County (LST-525) at Naval Station Guam in 1968. | Photo by Larry Roszkowiak | |
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52k | USS Meeker County (LST-980) at anchor in the harbor at Hong Kong, BCC, 23 August 1968. | Photo by Walter F. Loetell Jr., ETR-2 USS Sumner County, 1966 to 1968 | |
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271k | USS Meeker County (LST-980) loading US Army 5th Calvary Division vehicles for trip to Chu Viet, South Vietnam, location unknown, circa 1967-68. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1968. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret | |
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71k | USS Meeker County (LST-980) arriving at Chu Viet, South Vietnam to off-load US Army 5th Calvary Division vehicles, circa 1967-68. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1968. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret | |
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186k | USS Meeker County (LST-980) off-loading US Army 5th Calvary Division vehicles at Chu Viet, South Vietnam, circa 1967-68. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1968. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret | |
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50k | USS Meeker County (LST-980) at the LST ramp on the Cua Viet River, South Vietnam, 1969. | Photo by Joe Criscione | |
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263k | USS Meeker County (LST-980) underway in San Diego, CA. harbor, 06 September 1970.
NH 84878, Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 84879, courtesy of William H. Davis, 1976 |
Mike Smolinski |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LT. Westfall, William Fielding, USN | 26 February 1944 - 4 April 1945 |
02 | LT. Newhard, Walter George, USN | 4 April 1945 - 7 February 1947 |
03 | LT. Costello, Thomas Lowerre, USN | 7 February 1947 - 30 April 1947 |
04 | LTjg. Stewart, Fred Lawrence, USN | 30 April 1947 - 9 June 1947 |
05 | LT. Erickson, Robert James Floyd, USN | 9 June1947 - 7 April 1950 |
06 | LCDR. Sanders, Russell Lawrence, USN | 7 April 1950 - 8 May 1951 |
07 | LT. Bryan, John D., USNR | 8 May 1951 - 8 May 1952 |
08 | LT. Owens, Joseph F., USNR | 8 Mau 1952 - 2 Jamury 1953 |
09 | LT. Greene Jr., Oscar, USNR | 2 January 1953 - 29 August 1953 |
10 | LT. Buechler, Robert George, USN (USNA 1948-B) | 29 August 1953 - 19 August 1954 |
11 | LT. Tisdale, Robert Street, USN (USNA 1946) | 19 August 1954 - 16 December 1955 |
Decommissioned | 16 December 1955 - 23 September 1966 | |
12 | LCDR. Clark, Frank Elwood, USN | 23 September 1966 - 5 July 1968 |
13 | LCDR. Neuman, Dennis Earl, USN | 5 July 1968- Ocotober 1969 |
14 | LCDR. Van Slyke Jr., James Corbett, USN | October 1969 - December 1970 |
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