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Osceola (YTM-129)
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Osceola (YTB-129) (1944 - 1962)
Osceola (YT-129) (1938 - 1944)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Juliet - Tango NEJT

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (Pearl Harbor) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

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Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS), February 1973

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Specifications:
Displacement 890 tons
Length 124' 9"
Beam 28'
Draft 14'
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament unknown
Propulsion direct-drive diesel, twin screw

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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
Osceola (YT/YTB/YTM-129)
14070201	173k	YFD-2 arrives at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 23 August 1940, after being towed from New Orleans, LA. It is still marked "U.S. Naval Station New Orleans, La". Osceola (YT-129) is in the right foreground, assisting. One of the other tugs is probably Sunnadin (AT-28). An unidentified destroyer seaplane tender (AVD) is tied up at the Ford Island fuel dock, in the left center. Visible in the distance, moored on the other side of Ford Island, are (from left to right): Yorktown (CV-5), two destroyers, Wright (AV-1) and two light cruisers. US National Archives photo # 80-G-411134		Naval History & Heritage Command
140812902	137k	Osceola (YT-129), moored just after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 07 December 1941. A US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives		Dave Wright
140812901	84k	Osceola (YT-129), along with other tugs, maneuver West Virginia (BB-48) on her way to Drydock No. 2, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 09 June 1942. The battleship had spent the last seven months sunken in the mud of Pearl Harbor after the attack of 07 December 1941. The tug behind Osceola is probably Nokomis (YT-142), with a Lapwing-class minesweeper visible behind her. A US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives		Jon Burdett updated caption: Karl Zingheim, USS Midway Museum
140812903	105k	Osceola (YT-129) moving California (BB-44) to drydock at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 09 April 1942. Still frames from short film "Pearl Harbor: Spring 1942" filmed by Hollywood movie director Commander John Ford (USNR)'s film crew. National Archives ID 2663369, Local ID 428-NPC-47631		David Upton
140812904	114k
140812905	114k
140812906	133k
140812907	102k

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Osceola (YT-129 / YTB-129 / YTM-129)
DANFS history entry located at the Naval History and Heritage Command website

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors

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