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History
United States
Name
USS Cacapon
Namesake
Cacapon River in West Virginia
Builder
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland
4 battle stars and Navy Unit Commendation (World War II)
9 battle stars (Korea)
USS Cacapon (AO-52) was a T3 Cimarron-class fleet oiler acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. She served her country primarily in the Pacific Ocean Theater of Operations, and provided petroleum products where needed to combat ships. For performing this dangerous task, she was awarded battle stars and citations during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
Cacapon was launched 12 June 1943 at Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland, under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. A. V. Doherty; acquired by the Navy 21 September 1943; and commissioned the same day.
The name is derived from a Shawnee word meaning "medicine waters".[1] Cacapon River and Cacapon Mountain are in West Virginia.
^Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. pp. 146–147.
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December 12, 1946, whereupon the USS Henderson and USSCacapon set up weather monitoring stations. By December 24, the USS Currituck had begun launching...
Committee on Antarctic Names after USSCacapon, a tanker in the Western Task Group of Operation Highjump, 1946–47. "Cacapon Inlet". Geographic Names Information...
War II, Freeman served for two years in the United States Navy on the USSCacapon (AO-52). By the time of the Korean War, Freeman reached the army rank...
yet built, a record she held until the 81,000-metric-ton (80,000-long-ton) USS Forrestal was launched in 1954. She was designed for a crew of 2,400 officers...
HMS Electra. For her part of the engagement, Nachi damaged the heavy cruiser USS Houston with a pair of 8-inch (203 mm) shell hits at distances beyond 22...
Battle of Leyte Gulf and escorting troop convoys. Aircraft from the carriers USS Ticonderoga and Langley caught her escorting two merchantmen west of Luzon...
on 20 June 1944 she was attacked by aircraft from the aircraft carriers USS Bunker Hill, Monterey, and Cabot. During this action, the carrier Hiyō was...
Knight's Move). Escorting the convoy were the battleships Duke of York and USS Washington and the carrier Victorious. Tirpitz, Admiral Hipper, and six destroyers...
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all of her sister ships — USS Grampus (SS-207), 'USS Grayback (SS-208), USS Grayling (SS-209), USS Grenadier (SS-210), and USS Gudgeon (SS-211) — were lost...
March 1943, Akikaze and two other destroyers attacked a submarine — possibly USS Triton — near Kairiru Island 3°20′10″S 143°33′0″E / 3.33611°S 143.55000°E...
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group. During this action, she possibly torpedoed the cruisers USS Pensacola, and/or USS Northampton. On 23 October 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf...
Janequeo (5.), retrieved on 26 September 2013 NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USS Potawatomi (ATF-109), ex USS Potawatomi (AT-109) (1944)...
10 Nov: USS Abarenda, USS Alhena, USS Argonne, USS Aries, USSCacapon, USS Cebu, HMS Hydra, USS Kyne, USS Lyman, USS Mindanao, USS Oberrender, USS Petrof...
10 Nov: USS Abarenda, USS Alhena, USS Argonne, USS Aries, USSCacapon, USS Cebu, HMS Hydra, USS Kyne, USS Lyman, USS Mindanao, USS Oberrender, USS Petrof...
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