U.S. WWI and WWII Pictures and Letter Cancels from Historic Navel Ships

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U.S. WWI and WWII Pictures and Letter Cancels from Historic Navel Ships
These AP News Wire and Official Navy photos of Navel ships and the ship post mark cancels are original pieces of history!
From
the light cruiser Oklahoma City to the carrier USS Hancock, to the Auxiliary Repair ship USS Neptune.
The
USS
Oklahoma City
was a Cleveland Class light
cruiser commissioned in late 1944. It earned 2 Battle Stars in the Pacific.
In the late 1950's was converted to a guided missile cruiser for the Talos system.
Saw action in the Vietnam War. It was decommissioned December 1979 and was sunk in a weapons exercise 26 March 1999.
USS Hancock
was an Essex Class aircraft carrier commissioned April 1944. She earned 4 Battle /stars in the Pacific campaign.
Modernized and recommissioned in the early 1950's as an attack aircraft carrier, she played a prominent role in the Vietnam War earning a Navy Unit Commendation.
The Hancock was the first to have steam-driven catapults.
She was decommissioned 30 January 1976 and sold for scrap 1 September 1976.
Ironically, some of the scrap metal from this ship, that fought the Japanese, was sold to Japan for use to build cars!
The
USS Neptune
was originally launched as the "William H.G. Ballard" 22 August 1945, but renamed USS Neptune in 1953.
Her job was to transport, deploy, retrieve and repair submarine cables.
Her motto was "Find It, Fix It, Hide It".
Decommissioned 1 January 1991 and recycled in 2005.
There are also an
envelope canceled on the USS Dubuque and part envelopes from other Naval ships.
The torn stamp/cancel from the
USS Houston
(CA30) is a memento of a very glorious and sad legacy of a US warship.
Commissioned June 1930, the Houston saw a lot of action in WWII, including the Battle of Java Sea and the fateful Battle of Sunda Straits.
In the Battle of Sunda Straits, the Houston was hit by 4 Japanese torpedos and sank, but not before hitting and damaging 3 Japanese destroyers and sinking a minesweeper.
Before sinking, the Houston was machine-gunned, including men in the water, and shelled by Japanese ships. One shell killed Captain Albert Rooks, who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions.
Of the 1061 aboard, only 368 surveyed the battle and were imprisoned. A total of 77 survivors died in prison, the rest were released a the end of the war.
Very historic and great for framing!
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