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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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Campaign and Dates | Campaign and Dates |
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Marshall Islands operation
Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 31 January to 5 February 1944 | Leyte operation
Leyte landings, 13 to 25 October and 14 November 1944 |
Marianas operation
Capture and occupation of Guam, 21 to 25 July 1944 | Luzon operation
Lingayen Gulf landings, 4 to 13 January 1945 |
Western Caroline Islands operation
Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, 6 September to 14 October 1944 | Iwo Jima operation
Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 6 March 1945 |
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USS Fayette (APA-43) |
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448k | SS Sea Hawk underway during builders trials near her builders yard, Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS, date unknown. ©Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus | ||
85k | USS Fayette (APA 43) off the New York Navy Yard on 21 October 1943. This early Ingalls-built unit retained the rig delivered by Ingalls: a goalpost and pair of kingposts forward and a pair of kingposts and a goalpost aft. US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo # 19-N-54442 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Mike Green | ||
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197k | USS Fayette (APA 43) underway in New York Harbor, 23 October 1943. Note that none of her boats have been embarked. Photo was taken by an aircraft
from Naval Air Station New York.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # 80-G-85762 |
Robert Hurst | |
151k | Transports steam in column off Pavuvu, Russell Islands, August 1944, probably during exercises preceding the Palaus operation. Photographed from USS Fayette (APA 43), looking forward, showing her kingposts and LCVPs stowed on deck. USS Pinkney (APH 2) is leading the column, followed by USS Elmore (APA 42) and USS DuPage (APA 41). Photo by Sgt McBride, USMC, 1st Division.
USMC photo # 94719 |
US Naval Historical Center | ||
29k | USS Fayette (APA 43) moored pierside, date and location unknown. | Wayne VanDerVoort | ||
35k | USS Fayette (APA 43) moored pierside, date and location unknown. This is the same photo as above but with some crew members superimposed in the photo. | Wayne VanDerVoort | ||
251k | Ex-USS Fayette (APA 43) in merchant service as Moore McCormack Steamship Co.'s SS Robin Gray, Capetown South Africa, circa 1950s ©M. Cassar |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus | ||
168k | SS Robin Gray probably off Vietnam, circa 1960s-70s. ©B. Rohbrecht |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus | ||
207k | In merchant service as the Verity Marine Corp.'s SS Gray at Durban, South Africa, date unknown ©Shipfoto International |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus |
Commanding Officers | ||
LCDR. Budd, James Horgeson, USNR (Ferry Crew #4) | 30 April 1943 - 14 May 1943 | |
  | Decommissioned | 14 May 1943 - 14 October 1944 |
01 | CDR. Lester, John Campbell :RADM | 14 October 1944 - 17 May 1945 |
02 | CDR. Wilson Jr., Balch Beall | 17 May 1945 - 6 March 1946 |
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