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Namesake
Brazos River is the 11th-longest river in the United States at 1,280 miles from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Curry County, New Mexico to
its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico with a 45,000-square-mile drainage basin. Being one of Texas' largest rivers, it is sometimes used to mark the boundary between East Texas
and West Texas.
Brazos River downstream of Possum Kingdom Lake, Palo, Pinto County, TX.
Wikipedia courtesy ©Huceo Bear |
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USS Brazos at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA., 2 November 1919.
US Naval History and Heritage Command catalog # NH 56563 |
US Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Brazos with USS Abbot alongside at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in January 1920.
US Naval History and Heritage Command catalog # NH 63528 |
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USS Kanawha (AO-1), USS Cuyama (AO-3),
USS Sapelo (AO-11), and USS Brazos (AO-4) at anchor mid-1920s, location unknown.
US Naval History and Heritage Command catalog # NH 77321, from the scrapbooks of Fred M. Butler. Courtesy of Mrs. C.R. DeSpain, Forrest Knolls, Maryland, 1973. |
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USS Brazos (AO-4) at anchor, 2 May 1927, location unknown.
US Naval History and Heritage Command catalog # NH 55544 and US Naval History and Heritage Command catalog # NH 55543 |
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USS Brazos (AO-4) at anchor off the coast of Panama in January 1931.
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Hyperwar US Navy in WWII |
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USS Brazos (AO-4) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo |
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USS Brazos (AO-4) at anchor, date and location unknown.
US Naval History and Heritage Command catalog # NH 2231, collection of Gustave Maurer |
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USS Brazos underway during the 1930s. Note trucks and automobiles parked forward of her bridge.
US Naval History and Heritage Command catalog # NH 95683 |
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USS Brazos (AO-4) deploys four 4" hoses while refelling an unidentified US destroyer.
US Navy photo from the author's collection from "Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy, 1912-1992", by Thomas Wildenburg |
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USS Brazos (AO-4) refueling USS Yorktown (CV-5) mid-Pacific, July 1940.
US National Archives, (Seattle Branch) RG-181. |
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Stern view of USS Brazos (AO-4) refueling USS Yorktown (CV-5) mid-Pacific, July 1940.
US National Archives, (Seattle Branch) RG-181. |
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Stern view of USS Brazos (AO-4) moored pierside in the Aleutian Islands, 12 April 1943.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-398580>/i>, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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USS Brazos (AO-4) underway March 1944, probably in Puget Sound. Her camouflage is measure 32/AO.
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USS Brazos (AO-4) at anchor near Puget Sound Navy Yard, 3 March 1944. She has been rearmed with one 5"/38 dual purpose
gun mount forward, two twin 40mm AA gun mounts amidships, and two more twin 40mm AA gun mounts and another single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount on the stern.
US National Archives, RG-19-LCM. Photo # 19-N-61606, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Brazos (AO-4), refueling USS Hemminger (DE-746),
28 February 1945 in TG19.14 between 1445 and 1725 hours. Brazos's camouflage scheme is measure 32 design 4AO. Photo taken from Hemminger (DE-746) |
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USS Brazos (AO-4) at anchor probably in San Francisco Bay, sometime between 26 November 1945 when she returned from duty in
the Pacific to 8 February 1946 the date she was decommissioned. |
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