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Korean War Campaign |
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| Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952, 11 and 12 September 1952 |
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102k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) underway near Charleston, S.C., shortly after commissioning in September 1950. US National Archives RG-19-LCM, photo # 19N-135885, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Robert Hurst | ||
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200k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) with USS Montrose (APA-212) and USS Henry W. Tucker (DD-875) alongside at Sasebo, Japan in September 1952. | Bruce Campbell courtesy Military Locators | ||
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510k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) ship's newspaper "Call of the Canyon", Vol 3 Issue 11, 14 September 1953, page 1. Change of Command, CAPT. Dureya relieves CAPT Williamson. | Bruce Campbell | ||
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71k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) 11 September 1959, location unknown. US Navy photo |
Bob Hall | ||
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75k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) and USS Hamul (AD-20) anchored at Naval Station Long Beach, circa 1960s. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | ||
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77k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) under way, date and location unknown. 1960s configuration. US Navy photo |
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280k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) under way, off San Diego, 23 September 1960. US Navy photo |
Mike Smolinski | ||
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88k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
Bob Hall | ||
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67k | "Its a rare sight to see a Destroyer Tender alongside an Aircraft Carrier. As a matter of fact, no one here knows whether it has ever happened before. Recently, however, at Subic Bay, in the Philippines, USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) wrote a new page in Western Pacific history by going alongside USS Oriskany (CVA-34). The event was occasioned by a serious fire which had broken out in Oriskany while operating off the Vietnam coast. As soon as the ships were moored together, Bryce Canyon's repair personnel swarmed aboard the carrier, and commenced around-the-clock operations. First on the agenda was the immediate recharging of some 107 CO2 fire extinguishers, which had been used in fighting the blaze. At the end of six days, all repair work was completed. Every one of the seventy ventilation and heating systems, as well as all electric motors in the damaged area had been checked out and restored to order. During this period, working parties from the tender had also pitched in with Oriskany sailors and personnel from SRF Subic, in cleaning up the fire and smoke damaged areas to make them habitable. Elsewhere aboard the tender, skilled technicians worked on countless jobs not immediately associated with the fire damage, giving the carrier a tender availability the like of which she had never seen. On conclusion of work, Bryce Canyon's modern electronic accounting machine installation tallied the results of her 6-day effort. In all, a total of 6,019 manhours had been expended; the equivalent of a two week availability for four destroyers. As both ships got underway at the crack of dawn on the sixth day, Oriskany sent the following visual message to the tender: "Your outstanding service and voluntary assistance in removing our scars is greatly appreciated. The willingness to work and your speed and efficiency helped us leave Subic Bay in outstanding shape for our transit home. Well done to all men aboard Bryce Canyon!" |
Bruce A. Campbell USS Bryce Canyon | ||
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62k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) moored pierside at Naval Base Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines, circa 1966, with USS Norris (DD-859), USS Lowe (DE-325), unknown and USS O'Brien (DD-725) alongside. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | ||
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40k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) moored pierside, probably, at Naval Base Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines, circa 1966, with USS Wallace L. Lind (DD-703), USS Lloyd Thomas (DD-764) and USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) alongside. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | ||
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5.3m | Photo taken from the USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) while on her 1966-1967 WestPac deployment.
USS Chicago (CG-11), with the assistance of
Satago (YTM-414) and
Tensaw (YTM-418), along with 11 pusher boats (due to 30 knot winds), attempts to moor at berth 8, Yokosuka, Japan, 25 November 1966.
USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) and
USS Henry B Wilson (DDG-7) are in the background.
Note the top of one of the AN/SPG-55B Fire Control Radars for the Terrier Missile systems aboard Kitty Hawk at the bottom of the photo.
From the collection of AG3 Don Fitzgerald. |
Bob Canchola | ||
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92k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) drydocked at Todd Shipyards, Terminal Island, San Pedro, CA., July 1967. Photos courtesy of Arthur Willenbrecht, QM1 USS Bryce Canyon |
Bruce Campbell USS Bryce Canyon. | ||
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81k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) at Pearl Harbor, HI, December 1968, with USS Nicholas (DD-449) alongside |
© Richard Leonhardt | ||
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58k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) and USS Wiltsie (DD-716) at anchor in the harbor at Hong Kong, BCC, April 1971. | Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | ||
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99k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36)'s crew man the rail as she enters port, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Robert M. Cieri | ||
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97k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36)'s crew man the rail as she enters port, date and location unknown. ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA. |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | ||
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47k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36)'s crew man the rail as she enters port, date and location unknown. ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA. |
Mike Smolinski | ||
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47k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1974. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | ||
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57k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) at anchor off Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, in February 1977. Photo by Gary Wiles. |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. | ||
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363k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) moored at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, HI., October 1979. | Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus | ||
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120k | USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) being moved after decommissioning by Neodesha (YTB-815), probably at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, HI., after 30 June 1981. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1981. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. | ||
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204k | Ex-USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) moored, November 1981, location unknown. | Photo by Chris Howell, Southland Ship Stores Limited, Port of Bluff, N.Z. | ||
| USS Bryce Canyon Additional Ships Patches |
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 Contributed by Mike Smolinski |
 Contributed by Bruce A. Campbell |
 Contributed by Daniel Keyes, MR3, R-2 Div |
 Contributed by Bryce A. Campbell |
 Contributed by Bryce A. Campbell |
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| Bruce A. Campbell, Acting President
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