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USS Samuel Chase. USS. Samuel Chase. USS Samuel Chase (APA-26), launched as SS African Meteor, was an Arthur Middleton -class attack transport manned by the United States Coast Guard during World War II. She was named after Founding Father Samuel Chase, a signatory to the Declaration of Independence. Samuel Chase participated in all five of the ...
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.
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Rear Admiral Morison’s evaluation notwithstanding, Operation Dragoon almost did not occur. The U.S.-British Quadrant Conference, held in Quebec in August 1943, which set the time frame for the 1944 invasion of Normandy (Operation Overlord—“D-Day”), also discussed the proposed “Anvil,” a concurrent invasion of southern France. Anvil was viewed skept...
At this point, the Overlord follow-on operations in northern France were going so well that any dispersal and disruption of German forces that would have been brought about by an earlier Anvil/Dragoon were no longer essential. Opening another front against Germany remained an objective of Dragoon, but with the recaptured northern French ports worki...
As part of a general air offensive against southern France, Allied air forces had already begun bombing port facilities, coastal fortifications, bridges, and communications nodes in proximity to the landing areas at the end of April. These missions were conducted with steadily increasing intensity as of mid-May, with care taken not to give the Germ...
USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) off the southern France invasion beaches after discharging its embarked troops, August 15, 1944. Courtesy Naval History and Heritage Command. Opposing the Allies was the weakened Army Group G under General Johannes Blaskowitz.
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Complement: 578 Officers and Enlisted. Displacement: 9000 tons. Length: 491 feet. Beam: 69 feet 6 inches. Draft: 26 feet 6 in. Flank Speed: 18 Knots. USS SAMUEL CHASE (APA-26) Deployments & History.
Sep 2, 2015 · Other troops have an easier ascent from an LCVP near the stern, boarding by an accommodation ladder. The LCVP is marked as one of Samuel Chase's boat complement, the PA26-24 on her bow identifying her as Boat 24 from APA-26. Samuel Chase is painted in what was called a graded pattern, dark blue below a hypothetical horizon line and haze gray above.
Feb 21, 2020 · USS Samuel Chase, AP-56 / APA-26, a troop transport, was commissioned by the Navy in 1942 with an all-Coast-Guard crew and nicknamed “Lucky Chase” after landing thousands of invasion troops in North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy (D-Day) without suffering any damage or shipboard casualties.
