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International Radio Call Signs, |
USS Arcturus (AK-18) Assigned in 1941 International Radio Call Sign: Negat - Option - Queen - George NOQG |
USS Arcturus (AKA-1) WWII International Radio Call Sign: Nan - Charlie - George - George NCGG |
Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign |
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign |
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North Africa occupation
Fedhala, Morocco, 8 to 11 November 1942 | Okinawa Gunto operation
Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, (Hagushi beachhead), 1 to 14 April 1945 |
Sicilian occupation
Scoglitti, 9 to 15 July 1943 | |
Salerno landings
Paestum, 9 to 21 September 1943 | |
Invasion of Southern France
La Nartelle, 15 August to 25 September 1944 |
Navy Occupation Service Medal |
China Service Medal (extended) |
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2 to 28 September 1945 | 29 September to 11 October 1945 |
8 to 11 November 1945 | 12 November to 6 December 1945 |
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344k | Sunship yard’s aerial scenes, 10 July 1939. The first, third, and fourth hull are C2 ships being completed for Moore-McCormack Lines as
Donald McKay [USS Polaris (AF-11)], Mormachawk [USS Arctucus (AKA-1)], and Mormacwren [USS Algorab (AKA-8)]. The shipways in view has sister Mormacdove [USS Alchiba (AKA-6)]. The second vessel is Winkler, operated by Atlantic Oil Shipping. Over the next two years, the C2’s were acquired by the Navy and became USS Polaris, USS Arcturus, USS Algorab, and USS Alchiba. Winkler was torpedoed and lost three years later while straggling from the Belfast to New York convoy ON-166, 23 February1943. 19 men were lost and survivors landed at St John, Nova Scotia. Dallin collection photos, Hagley Museum. 11766, 11775, and 11778 Used for educational and non-commercial purpose. |
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273k | Miss Mollie Foulks Lee christening Moore-McCormack Line's SS Mormachawk as the ship is launched, 18 May 1938, at Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, PA. | Dale Hargrave | |
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170k | Moore-McCormack Line's SS Mormachawk underway, date and location unknown. | Dale Hargrave | |
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187k | USS Arcturus (AK-18) moored pierside at Norfolk, VA., 12 November 1940. The destroyer
USS Morris (DD-417) is in the far background.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Photo # 80-G-179338, from the collections of the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
Robert Hurst | |
53k | USS Arcturus (AK-18) underway, date and location unknown. Her camouflage is Measure 12(modified). | Terry Sanders | ||
USS Arcturus (AKA-1) |
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292k | Boat plan stowage for USS Arcturus (AKA-1) dated December 1944. US Navy Bureau of Ships photo from "U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft" by Norman Friedman. |
Robert Hurst | ||
94k | USS Arcturus (AKA-1) moored at Norfolk Navy Yard, 9 May 1943, with landing craft embarked. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # 19-N-47662, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command, courtesy Shipscribe.com |
Robert Hurst | ||
72k | Ex-USS Arcturus (AKA-1) under way while in merchant service as the Johnson Line MV Star Arcturus (Swedish owned). | Gerhard Muller-Debus |
Commanding Officers | |||
01 | CDR. Bartman, Russell Clyde | 26 October 1940 - 15 September 1942 | AK-18 |
02 | CDR. Hartley, Henry, USN | 15 September 1942 - 15 September 1942 | AK-18 |
03 | CDR. McKinney, John Reid | 28 September 1942 - 21 July 1943 | AK-18 |
04 | LCDR. Vischio, Attilo Anthony | 21 July 1943 - 1944 | AKA-1 |
05 | CAPT. Wooldson, Charles Philip | 1944 - 11 November 1944 | AKA-1 |
06 | CDR. Miller, Charles Horace Kendall | 11 November 1944 - 1945 | AKA-1 |
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