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Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns |
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Campaigns and Dates | Campaigns and Dates |
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Iwo Jima operation
Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 to 25 February 1945 | Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 11 April 1945 |
Navy Occupation Service Medal |
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2 to 27 September 1945 |
2 to 11 December 1945 |
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46k | USS Mellette (APA-156) at anchor, location unknown, 1945 | Russ Padden, Courtesy Dick Osborn, Secretary Mellette Reunion Group |
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264k | USS Mellette (APA-156) moored to a buoy off New York City, 7 May 1951. Photo by Ted Stone US Naval History and Heritage Command Catalog #: NH 66829. Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, VA., Ted Stone Collection. |
US Naval History and Heritage command | ||
152k | USS Mellette (APA-156) moored pierside showing collison damage to bow, circa 1950s, location unknown. | Dave West | ||
21k | APAs moored in the James River Group of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Lee Hall, VA.. From left to right: USS Crockett (APA-148), USS Deuel (APA-160), USS Mellette (APA-156) and USS Clinton (APA-144), date unknown. | USS Deuel Association |
Commanding Officers | ||
01 | CDR. Spring Francis H. | 27 September 1944 - 5 September 1945 |
02 | CAPT. Beasley, Charles Black :RADM | 5 September 1945 - 3 February 1946 |
03 | LCDR. Breault, David Thomas | 3 February 1946 - 31 July 1946 |
Decommissioned | 31 July 1946 - 18 October 1950 | |
04 | CAPT. MacMillan, Duncan Calvin :RADM | 18 October 1950 - September 1951 |
05 | CAPT. Andrews, Richard Stottke, USN (USNA 1931) :RADM | September 1951 - August 1952 |
06 | CAPT. Harper Jr., John Frank :RADM | August 1952 - 13 September 1953 |
07 | CAPT. Dornin, Marshall Edgar (Skinny), USN (USNA 1930) :RADM | 13 September 1953 - 1954 |
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