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Campaigns and Dates | Campaigns and Dates |
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14 to 17 April 1962 13 to 17 April 1963 24 April to 3 May 1963 28 August ti 12 September 1963 27 October to 9 November 1964 16 November to 10 December 1964 26 December 1964 to 31 January 1965 9 to 28 February 1965 1 to 7 March 1965 | 1 to 3 July 1966 14 July to 2 August 1966 18 March to 6 April 1967 18 April to 25 May 1967 |
8 to 9 March 1965 16 to 23 April 1965 2 to 13 May 1965 | 10 to 30 June 1968 |
1 to 9 September 1965 | 1 to 10 July 1968 21 July to 3 September 1968 28 September to 1 November 1968 |
23 March to 8 April 1966 21 April to 8 May 1966 10 to 30 June 1966 | 2 to 13 November 1968 |
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210k | Photo - Photo of William T. Ranney (American, 1813–1857), Washington Rallying the Americans at the Battle of Princeton, 1848. Oil on canvas (Princeton University Art Museum) Map - Princeton and Trenton 1777, The Battle of Princeton (USMA) |
Tommy Trampp | |
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402k | Starboard side view and overhead plan of USS Princeton (LPH-5) Plan by A.D. Baker III. Images from "U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History" by Norman Friedman |
Robert Hurst | |
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77k | USSPrinceton (LPH-5) underway off Taiwan in February 1960 during a SEATO exercise. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1960. |
Photo - Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. Caption - Neil D. Tagle, USMC V-3 Div |
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218k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) underway in San Diego harbor, date unknown.
©George Barber |
Nicholas Tiberio | |
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169k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) underway, date and location unknown. | Nicholas Tiberio | |
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173k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) underway, date and location unknown US Navy photo |
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126k | US Marine Corps HUS-1 helicopters are towed to their launching positions on the flight deck of USS Princeton (LPH-5),
20 March 1960. Note groups of Marines moving aft to board their helicopters.
US Navy photo # NH 97315 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | |
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138k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) entering Pearl Harbor, HI. in 1960.
US Navy photo. |
Yu Chu | |
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138k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) after her 1961 "FRAM" modernization, with UH-34 helicopters on her flight deck. US Navy photo # NH 73454 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
US Naval Historical Center | |
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124k | Port bow view of USS Princeton (LPH-5) underway in September 1962. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo # 1996.488.060.023 |
Mike Green | |
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94k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) with a helicopter formation overhead, 15 September 1962. US National Archives photo # USN 1062475 a US Navy photo from the collections of the US National Archives |
Ron Reeves | |
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216k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) probably entering the harbor at Long Beach, CA. while returning from a WESTPAC deployment in May 1962. US Navy photo |
Caption - Neil D. Tagle, USMC V-3 Div. Photo - Richard Miller BMCS USNR (Ret) |
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1540k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) moored to a buoy in the harbor at Hong Kong BCC in 1964. | Allen Smith USS Princeton | |
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50k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) moored to a buoy in the harbor at Hong Kong BCC, circa 1960s. | Ron Reeves | |
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264k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) moored pierside at NAS North Island, San Diego, CA., in mid 1960s. A Navy C2 Greyhound
is being, loaded aboard, or unloaded from the ship. Top photo from the collection of Ray D Bean Bottom photo thanks to Bob Canchola |
Yu Chu Bob Canchola |
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41k | Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse helicopters of Marine Helicopter Transport
Squadron (HMM-163) on the flight deck of USS Princeton (LPH-5) off the coast of Vietnam in 1963.
USS Princeton Cruise Book 1963 |
Yu Chu | |
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41k | A Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse helicopter belonging to Marine Helicopter Transport
Squadron (HMM-163) on the flight deck of USS Princeton (LPH-5) as the ship enters Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1963. The submarine in the background
is most probably USS Bonefish (SS-582).
USS Princeton Cruise Book 1963 |
Yu Chu | |
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106k | General William Westmoreland, Commander Military Advisory Group, Vietnam, walks up the USS Princeton flight deck with her Commanding Officer, Captain Paul J. Knapp, in late 1964, on the occasion of her delivery of flood relief supplies to northern South Vietnam US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # 93799 |
Fabio Peña | |
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222k | USS Princeton (LPH-5)'s crew man the rails as the ship enters/leaves port circa 1965. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo # 1996.488.060.030. |
Mike Green | |
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94k | U.S. Navy 7th Fleet Amphibious Ready Group underway in March 1965. The ships are (l-r):
USS Bexar (APA-237),
USS Princeton (LPH-5),
USS Thomaston (LSD-28), and
USS O'Bannon (DD-450). Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse helicopters of
Medium Helicopter Transport Squadron (HMM-365) fly above the ships while Princeton´s crew spells out the groups' designations
"TG 76.5/79.5" on the flight deck.
US Navy photo from "US Marines in Vietnam: The Landing and the Buildup 1965 Part 6, p. 195." |
Robert Hurst | |
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53k | A US Marine Corps UH-34D Sikorsky Seahorse helicopter, BuNo 147163, belonging to the "Ridge Runners" of Marine Helicopter Transport Squadron (HMM-163), lifts off from the deck of USS Princeton (LPH-5) circa 26 August 1965, off the coast of Vietnam. | G. Verver | |
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100k | US Marine Corps Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse helicopters lift off from USS Princeton (LPH-5) to land "Leathernecks" in the Republic of
Vietnam during Operation "Jackstay", 26 March 1966. UH-34D in the foreground is Bureau # 148075.
US Navy photo # K-31422 (Color) by JO1 E.J. Filtz USN, from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command. |
Robert Hurst | |
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34k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) anchored at Subic Bay, P.I., 2 April 1966 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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49k | USS Princeton (LPH-5), and USS Massey (DD-778) anchored at Subic Bay, P.I., 17 May 1966. | © Richard Leonhardt | |
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76k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) moored at Naval Station Subic, Bay, P.I., in 1966. | Photo by Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | |
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188k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) at anchor off Naval Station Subic, Bay, P.I., in 1967. | Yu Chu | |
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27k | Aerial view of USS Princeton (LPH-5) underway, date and location unknown. | Yu Chu | |
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92k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) refueling from USS Chipola (AO-63) during operations in the Pacific, 25 June 1968. Photographed by PH3 Carty. US Navy photo #USN 1142529 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center |
US Naval Historical Center | |
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172k | The ships of Task Group 76.4, the Amphibious Ready Group, underway in the Pacific, 31 July 1968, led by USS Princeton (LPH-5). US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo # 1996.488.060.026. |
Mike Green | |
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191k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) underway off the coast of Vietnam, July 1968. | Photo by Walter Loetll | |
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142k | Aerial view of USS Princeton (LPH-5) with a SH-3 Sea King helicopter coming aboard, 1 January 1969.
Photo source ©G.Verver, Flickr. |
Yu Chu | |
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19k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) was designated in 1969 as the prime recovery ship for Apollo 10, the lunar mission which paved the way for Apollo 11 and the first landing on the moon. | Yu Chu | |
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56k | USS Princeton (LPH-5) heading for Apollo 10, 26 May 1969. US Navy photo. |
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118k | Starboard broadside view of USS Princeton (LPH-5) at sea during the operation to recover the Apollo 10 spacecraft in May,
1969. Visible on the flight deck are SH-34 Seabat and SH-3 Sea King helicopters. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo # 2001.205.029 |
Mike Green | |
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186k | Overhead view of the USS Princeton (LPH-5) during recovery of the Apollo 10 space capsule in May, 1969. The capsule is
visible next to the ship. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo # 1996.488.060.028 |
Mike Green | |
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360k | A member of the Apollo 10 crew is hoisted into a helicopter from the prime recovery ship, USS Princeton (LPH-5), during
recovery operations in the South Pacific. Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, commander; John W. Young, command module pilot; and Eugene A. Cernan, lunar module pilot, were
picked up and flown to the deck of the Princeton where a red-carpet welcome awaited them. The spacecraft was later retrieved from the water and put aboard
the recovery ship. The Apollo 10 splashdown occurred at 11:53 a.m. (CDT), May 26, 1969, about 400 miles east of American Samoa, and about four miles from the recovery
ship, to conclude a successful eight-day lunar orbit mission. U.S. Navy underwater demolition team swimmers assisted in the recovery operations.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ID: S69-20621 |
Yu Chu | |
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186k | Broadside view of USS Princeton (LPH-5) at anchor in San Diego Bay, circa 1969. US Navy and Marine Corps Museum/Naval Aviation Museum, Photo # 1996.488.060.029. |
Mike Green | |
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119k | Ex-USS Princeton (LPH-5) at Tacoma, WA., for scrapping in April 1972. She was partly scrapped at Tacoma, and finished at
Portland, OR. Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 89319 |
Mike Green |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | CAPT. Upham II, Frank Kidder, USN (USNA 1934) | May 1959 - 31 May 1960 |
02 | CAPT. Brower, Charles Merton (Charlie), USN | 31 May 1960 - 31 May 1961 |
03 | CAPT. Davie, Theodore Henry, USN | 31 May 1961 - 1961 |
04 | CAPT. Bigelow, Lavell Meldrum, USN | 1961 - 10 February 1962 |
05 | CAPT. Cooper, Parker Cleeve, USN | 10 February 1962 - 31 May 1962 |
06 | CAPT. Smith, Robert Hayes, USN (USNA 1939) | 31 May 1962 - 10 July 1963 |
07 | CAPT. Boyum, John Hoag, USN, USNA 1940) | 10 July 1963 - 9 May 1964 |
08 | CAPT. Knapp, Paul Joseph (Snapper), USN | 9 May 1964 -19 June 1965 |
09 | CAPT. Gallagher Jr., Thomas James, USN | 19 June 1965 - 16 June 1966 |
10 | CAPT. Shepard Jr., Tazewell Taylor, USN (USNA 1942) :RADM | 16 June 1966 - 1966 |
11 | CAPT. Cochrane, Richard Lull, USN (USNA 1940) | 1966 - 29 May 1967 |
12 | CAPT. O'Brien, Frank Hammond, USN (USNA 1942) | 29 May 1967 - 6 August 1968 |
13 | CAPT. Cruse, Carl Mann, USN | 6 August 1968 - 27 August 1969 |
14 | CAPT. Stephens Jr., Franklin Taylor, USN | 27 August 1969 - 30 January 1970 |
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