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Suisun - Suisun Bay is a shallow tidal estuary (a northeastern extension of the San Francisco Bay) in Northern California. It lies at the confluence of the
Sacramento River and San Joaquin River, forming the entrance to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, an inverted river delta. Suisun Marsh, the tidal marsh land to
the north, is the largest marsh in California. Grizzly Bay forms a northern extension of Suisun Bay. Suisun Bay is directly north of Contra Costa County. (Wikipedia)
Photo - NASA photo North San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay
Map - Navigation chart Suisun Bay |
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Suisun (AVP-53) being launched at the Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, Washington, 14 March 1943.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-47215 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) off Houghton, WA., 17 September 1944, a few days after commissioning. She was the first of her class completed with the late war standard main armament of one 5"/38 gun and one quadruple 40mm mount, both forward. Her camouflage scheme is Measure 32 Design 2Ax.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-74567, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) off Houghton, WA., 17 September 1944. She is wearing Measure 32 Design 2Ax camouflage.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-74568, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) off Houghton, WA., 17 September 1944. She is wearing Measure 32 Design 2Ax camouflage.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-74569, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, 5 October 1944. She is wearing Measure 32 Design 2Ax camouflage.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-72541, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, 5 October 1944. She is wearing Measure 32 Design 2Ax camouflage.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-72544, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, 5 October 1944. She is wearing Measure 32 Design 2Ax camouflage.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-72545, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) passing a line to USS Castle Rock (AVP-35), off Javapog, Saipan, in April 1945. Photographed by Ensign Thomas Binford, USNR, from one of USS Castle Rock's 40mm gun tubs. Note Suisun's Measure 32 Design 2Ax camouflage.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-K-16189, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) in Tokyo Bay while refueling ADM. Halsey's seaplane, circa late August-early September 1945. |
Ed Arata for his father Albert Edward (Ed) Arata MM/1c USS Suisun |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) at New York, 17 August 1946. Photo courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.
US Navy photo # NH 67897, from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) coming alongside USS Pine Island
(AV-12), 11 July 1947, off San Diego, CA.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-415882, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) underway in a photograph dated 1952. The quadruple 40mm gun mount on her fantail was added in around 1948. Note the small aviation insignia just forward of her small bow number.
US Navy photo # NH 97926, from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Suisun (AVP-53) laid up in reserve as part of the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group, circa 1960. Identifiable ships from left to right include;
USS Izard (DD-589),
USS Halford (DD-480),
USS Wiley (DD-597),
USS Suisun (AVP-53),
USS Bryant (DD-665), and
USS Haraden (DD-585).
The destroyers are all Fletcher-class ships. Note the large aviation star on Suisun's bow.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 72676. |
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