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Argonne The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the greatest American battle of the First World War. In six weeks
the AEF lost 26,277 killed and 95,786 wounded. It was a very complex operation involving a majority of the AEF ground forces fighting through rough, hilly terrain the
German Army had spent four years fortifying. Its objective was the capture of the railroad hub at Sedan which would break the rail net supporting the German Army in
France and Flanders and force the enemy's withdrawal from the occupied territories. |
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USAT Argonne moored to a buoy, circa 1921, location unknown.
US Army Order of Battle 1914-1941 Vol 4 |
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 USS Argonne (AP-4)
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USS Argonne (AP-4) off Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., 4 July 1923, in her original configuration as a transport. Note the lifeboats for passengers on the main deckhouse.
US Navy photo # NH 99115 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, collection of Lieutenant Kelly Green. |
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USS Argonne (AP-4) mascot "Kowkow," alias "Suitcase," circa mid-1920s |
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USS Argonne (AP-4) at anchor, date and location unknown |
Jim Kurrasch
Battleship Iowa Pacific Battleship Center |
USS Argonne (AS-10)
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USS Argonne (AS-10) leaving drydock #2 at Mare Island Navy Yard, 16 April 1926, following overhaul.
File name: AP 4 04161926, US Navy photo from Mare Island Naval Shipyard newspaper "Grapevine" of 12 August 1994. |
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A view from above the bridge looking forward as USS Argonne (AS-10) headed into heavy seas, during the 1920s or 1930s. The crows nest, suspended between the forward kingposts, appears to be manned.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 57639. |
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A view looking forward from the USS Argonne (AS-10)'s bridge, while she was passing through a Panama Canal lock, circa 1933-1935. Note the ship's bell and forward lookout station mounted on her kingposts.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 99129, from the collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN. |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) at San Diego, CA., 10 December 1927 with submarines (from left to right):
USS V-2 (SF-5) later renamed Bass;
USS V-1 (SF-4), later renamed Barracuda; and
USS V-3 (SF-6), later renamed Bonita.
US Navy photo # NH 69094 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, CA., 1969. |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) in Panama waters, 1927-1928, while en route to join the Battle Fleet. The submarines alongside her are (from outboard to inboard):
USS V-2 (SF-5), later renamed Bass;
USS V-1 (SF-4), later renamed Barracuda; and
USS V-3 (SF-6), later renamed Bonita.
US Navy photo # NH 61683 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
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Port side view of USS Argonne (AS-10) at San Diego, CA., date unknown, with submarines alongside.
US Navy photo. |
Courtesy Randy Guttery
Tendertales Web Site |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) at anchor, circa 1930s. Note that she has an apparent rangefinder over the bridge even though she carries no armament.
US Navy photo # NH 67497 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) at anchor, circa 1930s. Note that she has an apparent rangefinder over the bridge even though she carries no armament.
US Navy photo # NH 58034 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, who (as a Captain) returned to the U.S. from Pearl Harbor on board Argonne in 1922. |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) at New York City, probably during one of her visits there in 1930 or 1934.
US Navy photo # NH 83457 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969. |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) moored to a buoy in the mid-1930s, location unknown.
US Navy photo # NH 99116 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN. |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) moored to a buoy in the mid-1930s, location unknown.
US Navy photo # NH 57638 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) dressed in flags and moored to a buoy in the mid-1930s while serving as flagship of the Base Force.
US Navy photo courtesy Shipscribe.com |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) at anchor off Kanaga Island, Aleutians Islands, Alaska, circa 1933. Kanaga volcano in the background.
File name: File name: AP 4 04161926, US Navy photo. |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) as part of the Alaska Surveying Expedition moored at Dutch Harbor remaining there, as seen here, for fuel
oil and gasoline. This completed, she returned to Adak for the survey completion. On 25 August 1933. the Argonne left Dutch Harbor and proceeded to Mare
Island for overhaul.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Catalog No. UA 437.04.008 |
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USS Argonne (AS-10) underway in the Panama Canal, circa 1930-40.
US Navy photo. |
Brad Proffitt for his father Floyd Proffitt, USS Thresher, SS-200 and
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USS Argonne (AS-10) tending submarines, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. |
USS Argonne (AG-31)
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USS Argonne (AG-31) at Navy Yard Pearl Harbor as flagship for the Base Force, 11 August 1941. Her camouflage is Measure 1 (dark gray with light gray mast tops), and she is flying the flags G-31--her hull number. The four-piper destroyers (or DM/DMS conversions) in the background are also in Measure One camouflage, with haze grey masts and funnel tops.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-25207, from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the U.S. National Archives. |
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USS Argonne (AG-31) at Navy Yard Pearl Harbor, 11 August 1941, during a refit. The ship, previously unarmed, had her long-assigned armament of 4 5"/51 guns (one visible here) and 4 3" anti-aircraft guns installed during this refit. The two forward kingposts have been removed and the crows nest relocated high up just before the bridge. The ship is being repainted into Measure One camouflage. The car on the pier is parked in a space marked "Commanding Officer, USS Argonne".
US National Archives photo # 19-N-25204, from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the U.S. National Archives. |
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USS Argonne (AG-31) at Navy Yard Pearl Harbor, 11 August 1941, during a refit. The provisional anti-aircraft armament of 4 3"/23 guns installed during this refit in the new gun tubs just aft of the stack was replaced in May 1942 by 4 3"/50 AA guns. Note the two styles of life rafts (also added during this refit) and the cars in marked parking spaces on the pier.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-25206, from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the U.S. National Archives. |
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USS Argonne (AG-31) at Navy Yard Pearl Harbor, 11 August 1941, during a refit. The ship, previously unarmed, had her long-assigned armament of 4 5"/51 guns (one visible here) and 4 3" anti-aircraft guns installed during this refit. The ship is being repainted into Measure One camouflage.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-25205, from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the U.S. National Archives. |
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Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. View looking toward 1010 Dock, with USS Oglala (CM-4) capsized in the foreground. To the left is Argonne (AG-31), with USS Sacramento (PG-19) barely visible beyond her.
US Navy photo # NH 83066, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, collection of Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin. |
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USS Argonne (AG-31) at Pearl Harbor in May 1942, protected by anti-torpedo nets.
US National Archives, RG-19-LCM,
Photo # 19-N-30204 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Argonne (AG-31) at Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 10 November 1944 after the explosion of USS Mount Hood (AE-11). Argonne was damaged from the concussion of the explosion as well as the Quonset huts atop barge YF-681 that was alongside Argonne at the time of the blast.
US Navy photo # NH 95406, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, copied from the War Diary, Manus Naval Base, for November 1944. |
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USS Argonne (AG-31) underway in San Francisco Bay, CA., between late 1945 and mid-1946. The ship may be concluding a voyage bringing servicemen home from the Western Pacific as part of Operation "Magic Carpet." The gun tub on the forecastle was added in 1942 for 20mm anti-aircraft guns.
US Navy photo # NH 98750, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donation of Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003. |
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