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Asiatic-Pacific Campaign |
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Sicilian occupation 11 to 15 July 1943 | Iwo Jima operation
Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 4 March 1945 |
Salerno landings, 9 to 21 September 1943 | Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 30 June 1945 |
West Coast of Italy operations - 1944
Anzio-Nuttuno advanced landings, 22 January to 1 March 1944 | |
Invasion of Southern France, 15 August to 25 September 1944 |
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USS Biscayne (AVP-11) |
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234k | U.S. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., viewed from the west, 25 July 1941, taken from an aircraft based at NAS Seattle, WA.
Among the ships present are:
USS Aroostook (AK-44), at right, and USS Prometheus (AR-3), center, alongside the near side of the long pier closest to the camera; USS Utah (AG-16) in drydock at left; USS Colorado (BB-45), alongside the middle of the three longest piers; USS Barnegat (AVP-10) and USS Biscayne (AVP-11), fitting out on the far side of the most distant long pier; USS Casco (AVP-12) and USS Mackinac (AVP-13), under construction in the drydock in the upper left. U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # NH-84927. > |
Robert Hurst | |
34k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11), painted camouflage scheme 12(modified), underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
Haze Gray & Underway Web Site | ||
95k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11), painted camouflage scheme 12(modified), port bow view, at Boston Navy Yard, 19 January 1942, in her original configuration with a large crane and clear fantail for handling aircraft. She is carrying a Vought OS2U "Kingfisher.". US National Archives photo # 19-N-83976, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the US National Archives. |
US Naval History and heritage Command | ||
76k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11) near Boston Navy Yard, 19 January 1942, in her original configuration. The first two ships of the class were completed to the original design for the class with a large seaplane handling crane and a clear fantail onto which it could lift seaplanes for servicing. The aircraft shown here is a Vought OS2U Kingfisher. US National Archives photo # 19-N-27316, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | ||
81k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11), painted camouflage scheme 12(modified), port quarter view, at Boston Navy Yard, 19 January 1942, in her original configuration with a large crane and clear fantail for handling aircraft. She is carrying a Vought OS2U "Kingfisher.". US National Archives photo # 19-N-83977, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the US National Archives |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
71k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11), painted camouflage scheme 12(modified), off Boston Navy Yard, 7 May 1942. Her large seaplane handling crane has been replaced with a smaller model and she now carries anti-aircraft guns on her fantail. US National Archives photo # 19-N-29521, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the U.S. National Archives. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
274k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11) officers, date and location unknown. | William Avery | ||
153k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11) serving as flagship in the Mediterranean, circa 1943-44. | Jim Kurrasch Battleship Iowa Pacific Battleship Center |
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93k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11), serving as the flagship of the "Joss" (Licata) invasion force during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943. Photographed from USS Buck (DD-420).
US National Archives photo # 80-G-259390, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the National Archives. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
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73k | British Gen. J. L. Hawksworth and RADM Richard L. Conolly, USN, aboard USS Biscayne (AVP-11), 6 September 1943, three days before the Salerno landings.
U.S. Navy Photo, now in the collections of the US National Archives |
Robert Hurst | |
112k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11), serving as invasion force flagship for the Anzio landings, 21-22 January 1944. Photographed from USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136). Note the PT boat alongside. US National Archives photo # 80-G-223478, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the National Archives. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
112k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11), docked at Arzew, Algeria, 11 June 1944, during amphibious exercises there. USS Doran (DD-634) and USS Cowie (DD-632) are outboard. Photographed from USS Catoctin (AGC-5). US National Archives photo # 80-G-240881 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the National Archives. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
115k | USS Biscayne (AVP-11), participating in amphibious exercises off Arzew, Algeria, as flagship of RADM B. J. Rodgers, 10-11 June 1944. Photographed from USS Catoctin (AGC-5).
US National Archives photo # 80-G-240919, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the National Archives. |
US Naval History and Heritage Command | ||
USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385) (WHEC-385) |
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65k | USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385) at the Bar Harbor, Maine Municipal pier during a port visit 1-5 April 1950. Photo courtesy the Strout Family Collection. |
Jonathan Eno | ||
127k | USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385) under way, date and location unknown. USCG photo |
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40k | USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385) under way, date and location unknown. USCG photo |
Ken Laesser | ||
64k | USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385), 12 August 1958. Original caption: "Coast Guard Cutter Dexter Approaches New Homeport. SAN FRANCISCO, 11 August.--The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter DEXTER entered the Golden Gate at noon today enroute to the Alameda Coast Guard Base, her new homeport. The DEXTER will primarily run offshore cruises for the training of Coast Guard reservists. During World War II, the vessel was the Naval USS BISCAYNE, which served in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific. Turned over to the Coast Guard in 1946, and re-named DEXTER, she served as a North Atlantic Weather Patrol vessel until 1953 when she was decommissioned. After reconditioning at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland, she was recommissioned last June 30, and last month began the voyage to her new station in Alameda. Commander Bainbridge B. Leland, USCG, commands the DEXTER, which carries his staff of eight other officers, ten Chief Petty Officers and 65 enlisted men. Many of the DEXTER personnel will make their homes in the East Bay area." USCG photo # 80458:12 CGD/ah, from the collections of the Office of the US Coast Guard Historian. |
Mike Green | ||
583k | USCGC Dexter (WAVP-385) docked at Vancouver BC on May 27, 1960.
City of Vancouver Archives, Photo No. AM1506-S3-3-: CVA 447-4234, by Walter E. Frost. |
Mike Green |
USS Biscayne (AVP-11 / AGC-18) Commanding Officers | ||
01 | LCDR. Champion Jr., Carleton Cole, USN (USNA 1920) | 3 July 1941 - October 1942 |
02 | CDR. Young, Robert Cummings, USN (USNA 1932) | October 1942 - 26 August 1943 |
03 | CDR. Eckelmeyer Jr., Edward Herman, USN (USNA 1927) :RADM | 26 August 1943 - 17 September 1944 |
04 | LCDR. Bates, Richard H., USNR | 17 September 1944 - 6 August 1945 |
05 | CDR. Ryan, Charles Maurice, USN (USNA 1925) | 6 August 1945 - 29 June 1946 |
USCGC Dexter (WAGC-18 / WAVP-385 / WHEC-385) Commanding Officers | ||
01 | CDR. Morrill, Arthur Giddings, USCG | 29 July 1946 - ? |
02 | CDR. Slade, Hans Franklin, USCG (USCGA 1929) | April 1948 - July 1949 |
03 | CDR. Childress, William Wilder, USCG (USCGA 1933) :RADM | July 1949 - June 1950 |
04 | CDR. Hay, Sidney Miller, USCG | 1951 |
05 | CDR. Land, Harold (Gus), USCG (USCGA 1937) | 1952 |
06 | CDR. Leland, Bainbridge Bradley, USCG (USCGA 1943) | 30 June 1958 |
07 | CAPT. Morrison, William Llewelyn, USCG (USCGA 1939) :RADM | September 1960 - June 1961 |
08 | CDR. Felton, Walter J., USCG | 1962 |
09 | CDR. Wilson, Kenneth Evans, USCG (USCGA 1943) | 1963 |
10 | CAPT. Carlson, Arnold E., USCG | 1964 - June 1965 |
11 | CAPT. Logan, Lloyd Milton, USCG | June 1965 - 1967 |
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