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Vietnam War Campaign |
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Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III
3 to 14 June 1967 30 June to 17 August 1967 30 August to 10 September 1967 9 October to 10 November 1967 |
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USS Hermitage (LSD-34) |
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10123420 |
404k | Photo by Dale Hargrave | ||
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355k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) launching, 21 June 1956, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS. | Dale Hargrave | |
31k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) underway in Hampton Roads off NAB Little Creek, date unknown. Note the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in the background. | Contributed by Mark Slebodnik Courtesy Eric Keller USS Hermitage web site |
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79k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) underway, circa 1957-1960, location unknown. | CDR. Louis D. Chirillo USN Ret | ||
329k | Overhead view of USS Hermitage (LSD-34) underway, 27 January 1961, probably in San Francisco Bay. US Navy photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. |
Darryl Baker | ||
48k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) pierside, Naval Station Rota Spain, date unknown. | Photo by Manolo Budiño | ||
70k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) underway, date and location unknown. | Eric Keller USS Hermitage web site | ||
104k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) underway in Valletta Harbor, Malta, 1964. Note UH-34D Seahorse helicopter aboard. Photo courtesy A. & J, Pavia.. |
Robert Hurst | ||
93k | Amphibious Group at sea, 17 April 1964. The ships are USS Hermitage (LSD-34) in left foreground, USS Francis Marion (APA-249) in center, USS Plymouth Rock (LSD-29) in the left rear and USS Yancey (AKA-93) in the right rear. Three UH-34 helicopters are flying in formation over Francis Marion. Photo was received from USS Francis Marion in 1964. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo #: NH 85059 |
Robert Hurst | ||
10123421 |
209k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) outbound to se from San Diego, CA., in 1967.
© George Barber |
Nicholas Tiberio | |
249k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) underway at Genoa, Italy, 31 December 1970 | Photo by Carol Martinelli | ||
277k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) departing Genoa, Italy, 6 January 1971. | Photo by Carlo Martinelli | ||
439k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) at anchor, 30 September 1975, in the Kithira Strait, Eastern Mediterranean with other ships of the US Navy Amphibious Ready Group after finishing exercise Deep Express - 75. Photos from the Soviet Kashin class DDG Krasny Krim. | Eugene Ivkin | ||
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254k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) underway off Norfolk, VA. date unknown.
©Nobe Smith |
Nicholas Tiberio and Diana Gabler to honor her brother Raymond Aaron Horney Jr.USS Hermitage 1979-81 |
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210k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) moored at Genoa, Italy, 25 August 1984. | Photos by Carlo Martinelli | ||
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268k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) departing Genoa, Italy, 20 February 1986. | Photo by Carlo Martinelli | ||
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598k | USS Hermitage (LSD-34) underway off Norfolk, VA. date unknown.
©Nobe Smith |
Nicholas Tiberio | |
NDD Ceará (G-30) |
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10123423 | 98k | NDD Ceará (G-30) underway, 1998, location unknown. This is a photo of Brizalian navy sailor Luiz Carlos dos Santos Córdova Jr.
in the foreground with Ceará in the background.
Photo by Raphael Andre |
Luiz Cordova | |
78k | Ex-USS Hermitage (LSD-34) in Brazilian Naval service as NDD Ceará (G-30) arriving in Rio De Janeiro, 2004.
Brazilian Navy Photo. |
Robert Hurst | ||
10123424 | 149k | A few months after being struck from the Brazil navy records ex-NDD Ceará (G-30) caught fire and burned. A few months after the fire
she was sunk as a target.
Brazil Navy photos |
Luiz Cordova | |
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10123426 | 35k | Ex-NDD Ceará (G-30) being expended as a target and sinking, date and location unknown.
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Luiz Cordova | |
10123427 | 99k |
Plaque and Additional Ships Patches |
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Contributed by Mike Smolinski |
Contributed by USS Hermitage web site |
Contributed by Mike Smolinski |
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Commanding Officers | ||
01 | CAPT. Parker, Lannis A. | 14 December 1956 - November 1957 |
02 | CAPT. Alexander, Joe McNitt | November 1957 - 1 November 1958 |
03 | CDR. Soballe, Verner Jensen | 1 November 1958 - 7 November 1959 |
04 | CAPT. Kaufman, Robert Kenneth | 7 November 1959 - 6 August 1960 |
05 | CAPT. Rood, George H. | 6 August 1960 - 19 August 1961 |
06 | CDR. Tyler, William Perkins | 19 August 1961 - 15 September 1962 |
07 | CAPT. Wier Jr., John Paul | 15 September 1962 - September 1963 |
08 | CAPT. Warren, Harry Sanford | September 1963 - May 1964 |
09 | CAPT. Donaldson Jr., James Carmichael (Jim) :RADM | May 1964 - October 1965 |
10 | CAPT. McCauley, James Edward, USN (USNA 1944) | October 1965 - 14 April 1967 |
11 | CAPT. Matthews Jr., Herbert Spencer :RADM | 14 April 1967 - 22 May 1968 |
12 | CAPT. Jex, Donald Robert, USN (USNA 1947) | 22 May 1968 - 19 September 1969 |
13 | CAPT. McDonald, Wesley Lee :ADM | 19 September 1969 - 14 September 1970 |
14 | CAPT. Ryder, Donald Fred | 14 September 1970 - 7 September 1971 |
15 | CDR. Walsh Jr., Harvey Thomas, USN (USNA 1954) | 7 September 1971 - 3 April 1973 |
16 | CDR. Laurance, James Douglas | 3 April 1973 - 29 January 1975 |
17 | CDR. Deegan, Robert Francis | 29 January 1975 - 7 January 1977 |
18 | CDR. Thomas, James P. L. | 7 January 1977 - 25 January 1979 |
19 | CDR. Dekshenieks, Vidvuds | 25 January 1979 - 5 March 1981 |
20 | CDR. Stoufer, Donald Andrew | 5 March 1981 - 11 February 1983 |
21 | CDR. Beckett, Robert Sampson | 11 February 1983 - 16 July 1985 |
22 | CDR. Condon, John Kenneth, USN (USNA 1971) | 16 July 1985 - 15 September 1987 |
23 | CDR. Wilson, Charles Henry | 15 September 1987 - 2 October 1989 |
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