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USS Avocet (AM 19)
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c. July/August 1921 USS California (BB 44) and Avocet in the Mare Island Channel. |
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10 August 1921 Commissioning ceremony aboard USS California (BB 44) at Mare Island Navy Yard. Avocet is alongside the California's port side. U.S. Navy photo 6627 |
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Avocet after being blown onto a sand bar at Chefoo, China by a typhoon on 26 August 1928. She is carrying a Martin T3M-2 torpedo plane of Torpedo Squadron VT-5A. USS Jason (AC-12), also serving as an aircraft tender, is in the distance. U.S. Marine Corps Museum photo, Jack A. Wagner collection, from copy at the Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Avocet (AVP 4)
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Stamped on back of photo "Our Navy" U.S. Navy photo 1 Hanson Place Brooklyn 17 Navy York |
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Deck Logs for 6 December 1941 |
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7 December 1941 Position of Avocet and other ships at Pearl Harbor. Map courtesy of National Geographic Book Division |
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Deck Logs for 7 December 1941 |
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Avocet at Berth Fox-1A, at Ford Island, prior to 1045 hrs. on 7 December, when she moved to avoid oil fires drifting southward along the shore of Ford Island. U.S. Navy photo 80-G-32669 |
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Avocet in foreground with Nevada (BB-36) in background, headed down channel after being intensely attacked by Japanese dive bombers. Photographed from Ford Island U.S. Navy photo NH 97396 |
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Gunners on board Avocet look for more Japanese planes, at about the time the air raid ended. Photographed from atop a building at Naval Air Station Ford Island, looking toward the Navy Yard. Nevada (BB-36) is at right, with her bow afire. Beyond her is the burning Shaw (DD-373). Smoke at left comes from the destroyers Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375), ablaze in Drydock Number One. U.S. Navy photo 80-G-32445
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7 December 1941 Unidentified ships are visible, as well as a B-17 flying over the mountains in the background U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, photo No. 1996.488.029.016 |
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Deck Logs for 8 December 1941 |
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Avocet in Elliott Bay, Seattle, Washington, on 1 March 1944. Her single 3"/50 gun is mounted in the original large tub that previously held two of these weapons National Archives photo 19-N-63708 |
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