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USS PCE(R)-853
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![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285306.gif) |
109k |
After launching |
William Boynton |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285308.gif) |
109k |
Commissioning pamphlet |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285309.gif) |
109k |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285310.gif) |
109k |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285311.gif) |
109k |
Photo caption reads: "Lt. Boynton coaches Rear Admiral Anderson on operating the blinker signal on the bridge" Photo from a Pullman Company magazine |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285304.gif) |
66k |
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![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285323.gif) |
274k |
U.S. Navy photo. |
Tommy Trampp Photo added 12 December 2020 |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285302.gif) |
63k |
c. 1944 |
Tom Kermen |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285319.gif) |
110k |
PCE(R)-853 approaches the USS Nevada (BB 36) and LCT-1405 to receive casualties on 30 March 1945 off Kerama Retto during the Okinawa campaign National Archives photo from the October 2009 edition of Naval History magazine |
Joe Radigan |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285320.gif) |
67k |
Drawing by J. M. Caiella from the October 2009 edition of Naval History magazine |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285307.gif) |
108k |
c. March/June 1945 Kerama Retto, Okinawa Photo from the book, "The Escort Carriers in Action" |
William Boynton |
USS Amherst (PCE[R] 853)
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![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285325.gif) |
102k |
Ships plaque |
Tommy Trampp |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285322.gif) |
88k |
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Richard Miller, BMCS, USNR, Ret. |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285324.gif) |
264k |
At Norfolk, during the 1950s Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1977 U.S. Navy photo NH 85421 |
Naval History and Heritage Command |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285305.gif) |
64k |
c. 1960s |
Historical Collections of the Great Lakes |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285313.gif) |
83k |
Welcome Aboard pamphlet. |
Russ Padden |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285314.gif) |
131k |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285315.gif) |
128k |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285303.gif) |
165k |
Detroit, MI. c. 1963 |
Harold Pfrender |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285316.gif) |
93k |
Welcome Aboard pamphlet |
Russ Padden |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285317.gif) |
105k |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285318.gif) |
211k |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285301.gif) |
183k |
c. 1966 Photo from the 1966/1967 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships |
Robert Hurst |
Van Kiep II (HQ 14)
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![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285312.gif) |
90k |
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Bill Toohey RR1 Box 240 Clinton, Illinois 61727 |
![PCE(R)-853](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/120285321.gif) |
163k |
Line drawing of starboard side and overhead view of Van Kiep II. She is armed with one 3"/50 gun, one 81mm mortar right aft, two single 40mm guns, and four single 20mm guns. No sonar or ASW weapons are carried. The radar is an SPS-5. She has berths for forty-five passengers at the after end of the extended forecastle, portside Line drawing by A. D. Baker III from U.S. Small Combatants: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman |
Robert Hurst |
Datu Marikudo (PS 23)
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![G-63](https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/tn/121104102.gif) |
257k |
c. October 2007 Cavite City, Philippines Romblon (PG 63), ex-PGM-41 inboard of Agusan (PG 61), ex-PGM-39. Datu Marikudo is in the background |
Edison Sy |