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Korean War Campaigns |
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Campaigns and Dates | Campaigns and Dates |
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North Korean Aggression
20 September to 2 November 1950 | Second Korean Winter
7 to 18 and 28 to 30 December 1951 11, 13 to 14, and 20 January 1952 23 January to 11 February 1952 20 March to 2 April 1952 |
Communist China Aggression
3 November 1950 to 23 January 1951 | Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952
5 June 1952 24 to 25 November 1952 28 December 1952 to 11 January 1953 |
First UN Counter Offensive
1 February to 21 April 1951 | Third Korean Winter
15 to 31 January 1953 |
Communist China Spring Offensive
22 to 23 and 25 to 27 April 1951 1 to 5 May 1951 |
Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal Vietnam Service Medal |
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Campaigns and Dates | Campaigns and Dates |
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29 to 30 July 1958 27 to 28 August 1958 24 to 26 April 1961 30 October to 7 November 1962 | 1 to 4 June 1967 29 June to 5 July 1967 18 to 22 July 1967 18 to 26 August 1967 5 to 15 October 1967 26 October to 1 November 1967 |
3 to 5 and 18 to 24 December 1965 | 29 November to 1 December 1968 |
25 to 28 December 1965 26 January to 19 February 1966 18 to 22 March 1966 2 April to 5 May 1966 | 1 to 6 and 8 to 27 January 1969 13 to 20 February 1969 |
29 April to 10 May 1967 22 to 25 and 31 May 1967 | 25 February to 2 March 1969 6 to 9 March 1969 3 to 6 and 19 to 25 April 1969 29 April to 3 May 1969 5 to 8 May 1969 |
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109k | Ship's sponsor Mrs. David Satterfield christening Catamount LSD-17, 22 December 1944, at Newport New Shipbuilding and
Drydock Co., Newport News, VA. Photo from the shipyard in house publication "Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. Bulletin". |
S. Dale Hargrave | ||
121k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) under way either during builders trials or soon after commissioning. | Ron Atwood | ||
174k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) commissioning ceremony, 15 March 1945, at Newport New Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA. | Ron Atwood for his father LTjg. Wayne R. Atwood SC USNR USS Catamount | ||
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29k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) at anchor, date and location unknown. | Janine Hilton | ||
53k | LCT(6)- 687 entering the well deck of USS Catamount (LSD-17) date and location unknown. | Janine Hilton | ||
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59k | LCT(6)- 588 in the well deck of USS Catamount (LSD-17) date and location unknown. | Janine Hilton | ||
36k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) at anchor, circa 1948, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | ||
89k | USS Catamount (LSD-17)'s well deck makes a unique swimming hole for NROTC midshipmen being trained in techniques of amphibious warfare. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, September 1949. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | ||
84k | From left to right; unknown LSD, USS USS Colonial (LSD-18), USS Gunston Hall (LSD-5) and USS Catamount (LSD-17) rendezvous at a Japanese port, date unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine November 1954. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | ||
65k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | ||
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241k | A view of USN ships supporting the Operation Redwing, Test Cherokee, Hydrogen Bomb Test at Bikini Atoll in May 1956. USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) and USS Catamount (LSD-17), two unidentifiable auxiliaries and an unidentifiable destroyer escort anchored before the first air-dropped hydrogen bomb test. LIFE magazine, J.R. Eyerman photographer, shared by Peter DeForest. |
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65k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) under way in San Francisco Bay, 1958. Photo by Allied Photographers. |
Robert M. Cieri | ||
77k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) under way, circa 1962, location unknown. | Photo by George Arthur USS Dynamic (MSO-432), submitted by Floyd Farrar | ||
107k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) under way, circa 1962, location unknown. | Photo by George Arthur USS Dynamic (MSO-432), submitted by Floyd Farrar | ||
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71k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) at anchor in Subic Bay, Philippines, July 1967.
Photo courtesy Eric Bollin, USN |
Robert Hurst | |
53k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) underway, circa 1968, location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Robert Hurst | ||
80k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) passing Point Loma while out bound to sea from San Diego, date unknown. US Navy photo. |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | ||
214k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) emblem, designed by LT. Forney N. Richardson, was adopted in February 1968. It features the head of a
Catamount (also known as a mountain lion, or Puma) as its central device. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 69470-KN |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
184k | A LCVP bucks in the well of USS Catamount (LSD-17), during mine clearance operations off Chinnampo, circa November 1950.
USS Forrest Royal (DD-872), flagship for this operation, is in the left background. US National Archives Photo # 80-G-422837 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
184k | USS Catamount (LSD-17) surrounded by small craft as she offloads amphibious forces and supplies in South Vietnam.
Photo was received by the Naval Photographic Center in March 1967. US Naval Photographic Center Photo # K-36241 a US Navy photo by JOC J. F. Falk now in the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
148k | A monitor flame boat leaving the well deck of USS Catamount (LSD-17) during tests conducted off the coast of San Diego,
California, 6 August 1968. US National Archives Photo # K-55228 a US Navy photo by CWO Sheehan USN now in the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
216k | Two monitor flame boats enter the well deck of USS Catamount in the harbor at San Diego California after undergoing tests, 6 August 1968. US National Archives Photo # K-55270 a US Navy photo by CWO Sheehan USN now in the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command |
US Naval History and Heritage Command |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | CAPT. Swafford, Chester Arthur, USN | 9 April 1945 - 9 September 1946 |
02 | CDR. Fortune Jr., James Hunter, USN (USNA 1933) | 9 September 1946 - 13 June 1948 |
03 | LCDR. Lienhard, Bernard Aloysus, USN | 13 June 1948 - 27 January 1950 |
04 | CDR. Loveland, Kenneth, USN (USNA 1933) :RADM | 27 January 1950 - 1952 |
05 | CDR. Thompson Jr., Ray Selwyn, USN (USNA 1936) | 1952 - 1954 |
06 | CDR. Payne, Raymond, USN (USNA 1936) | 1954 - 1955 |
07 | CDR. Judson, Jr., Charles Sterling, USN | 1955 - 1956 |
08 | CDR. Grabowsky, Leon, USN (USNA 1941) | 1957 - ? |
09 | CDR. Smith, Clayton Waite, USN (USNA 1943) | 1960 - 13 October 1962 |
10 | CDR. Slawson, Harry Filmore, USN | 13 October 1962 - 6 July 1963 |
11 | CDR. Graves Jr., Luther James, USN (USNA 1946) | 6 July 1963 - 5 August 1964 |
12 | CDR. Shaw, Burton Arthur, USNR | 5 August 1964 - 6 September 1966 |
13 | CDR. Kramer, George, USN | 6 September 1966 - 12 August 1967 |
14 | CDR. Groff Sr., Bruce Franklin, USN | 12 August 1967 - February 1969 |
15 | CDR. Mills, Joel Robert, USN | February 1969 - 7 April 1970 |
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