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Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born on 17 April 1741 in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md. He was admitted to the bar in 1761 and was a member of the Maryland Assembly from 1764 to 1784. In 1774, he became a member of the Maryland Committee of Correspondence and a delegate to the first Continental Congress, and served Congress intermittently until 1788 during which time he was a member of many important committees. After several years in private business, he became a judge in Maryland in 1788 and was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1796. Justice Chase died on 19 June 1811.
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USS Samuel Chase (AP-56) underway in Hampton Roads, 14 September 1942.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-35228 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Samuel Chase (AP-56) underway for sea departing Halifax, Nova Scotia harbor anchorage, 29 September 1942. From there her
force became convoy AT23, cruising a long path of ocean miles and port stops before arriving at the Casablanca-Algiers assaults in early November.
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USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) at anchor, date and place unknown.
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USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) at anchor, date and location unknown.
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USS Samuel Chase (APA-26), moored astern of
USS LST-362, at Mole Des Passageurs, Vieux Port, Algiers, Algeria, 16 June 1943, takes an ambulance aboard while preparing for upcoming Operation Husky,
the Invasion of Sicily.
US National Archives Identifier 135907311 - USS Samuel Chase - War Diary, 7/1-31/43.
Photo - US National Archives Identifier 205579252, Local Identifier 26-G-2842, US Coast Guard Photo 1842
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USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) recovering troops and vehicles after a landing exercise, late in 1943. A forward boom is lifting a 2½-ton truck from an LCM, while troops climb a cargo net from another LCM abaft the superstructure. Other troops have an easier ascent from an LCVP near the stern, boarding by an accommodation ladder. The LCVP is marked as one of USS Samuel Chase's boat complement, the PA26-24 on her bow identifying her as Boat 24 from APA-26. USS Samuel Chase is painted in what was called a graded pattern, dark blue below a hypothetical horizon line and haze gray above. One or more radar antennas have been carefully airbrushed out by a censor.
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USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) loading LCT(6)-601 off Omaha Beach,
6 June 1944. Filmed from the flagship USS Augusta (CA-31).
Frames from the short film " 'D' Day Off Coast of France. Sinking LCI, Bombardment of Coast and Various Unloading Scenes." U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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"The Jaws of Death." A photo by CPHOM Robert F. Sargent, USCG. A Coast Guard-manned LCVP from USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) disembarks troops of the First Division on the morning of 6 June 1944 at Omaha Beach.
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USS Samuel Chase (APA-26)'s LCVP-16 approaches "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944. The boat is smoking from a fire that resulted when a German machine gun bullet hit a hand grenade. After discharging his load of troops the boat's coxwain, Coastguardsman Delba L. Nivens of Amarillo, Texas, assisted by his engineman and bowman, put out the fire and returned to their transport. Note the beach obstacles just ahead of the boat.
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LCVP landing craft put troops ashore on "Omaha" Beach on "D-Day", 6 June 1944.
The LCVP at far left is from USS Samuel Chase (APA-26).
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Views of USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) while berthed at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA., 8 March 1946. YD-33 and stern of the USS Trego (AKA-78) are in the background to the left.
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Fireman Charles Tyner is holding his helmet which stopped shrapnel as he participated in landings in a Higgins boat on D-Day receiving only
a minor scratch. He served for a short time on the USCGC Alexander Hamilton (WPG-34), which was torpedoed off the coast of Iceland in 1941. From September 1943 to about
December 1945, he served on board USS Samuel Chase, flagship, Commander Transport Division One, 11th Amphibious Force while it went through Europe, the
Middle East, the northern coast of Africa, and eventually into the Pacific during the original occupation of the Japanese mainland. He participated in the initial
assault landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, and the initial assault on the southern coast of France, in the area of the Bay of Pampalonne,
where he was wounded on 15 August 1944. He received three Bronze Stars for the Europe-Africa-Middle East campaigns, two Bronze Stars for the Asiatic-Pacific campaigns
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