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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
Campaign and Dates |
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Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 9 to 19 April 1945 |
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USS New Hanover (AKA-73) |
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39k | New Hanover (AKA-73) immediately after launching at North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp, Wilmington, N.C., 31 October 1944.
North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp.photo. |
Louis James Muccio | ||
209k | USS New Hanover (AKA-73) under way in Charleston harbor, S. C., circa December 1944. She is about to pass under the Cooper River Bridge. The ship is painted in Camouflage Measure 32, Design 6AO. Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 45479 | Mike Green | ||
51k | USS New Hanover (AKA-73) under way, date and location unknown.
Note the classic "Dazzle" pattern that has been painted on the ship, revealing the extremes of the various designs prepared for the Measure 32 Medium Pattern System. US Navy photo courtesy of Floating Drydock. |
Robert Hurst | ||
108k | Ex-USS New Hanover (AKA-73) moored pierside, circa 1957-60, location unknown, while in merchant service as the Grace Lines freighter SS Santa Mercedes. | Gerhard Mueller-Debus | ||
158k | Ex-USS New Hanover (AKA-73) underway, circa 1960-66, location unknown, while in merchant service as the Central Gulf Lines freighter SS Green Wave. Photo was originally copyrighted by Alex Duncan. | Gerhard Mueller-Debus |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LCDR. Haines, John R., USNR | 22 December 1944 - ? |
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