USS Monrovia (APA-31) was a Crescent City class attack transport of the United States Navy, built from a C-3 Delta commercial freighter design, and was...
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California, during a drought in 2021. The boat had been carried by the USS Monrovia during World War II, and had been in combat in Sicily and later in the...
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Jerauld Wright (section USS Santa Fe (CL-60))
July 8, 1943, with Vice Admiral Hewitt and his staff embarking on the USS Monrovia, the invasion force's flagship. D-Day was July 10, and Patton's troops...
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Korean War. There were four ships in the class: USS Crescent City, USS Charles Carroll, USS Monrovia, and USS Calvert. Like all attack transports, the purpose...
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a naval gunfire officer serving in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the USS Monrovia. He remained in the Marine Corps Reserve until 1958, and rose to the...
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MC type C3-P or C3-Delta USS Crescent City (APA-21), ex-AP-40 USS Charles Carroll (APA-28) USS Monrovia (APA-31), ex-AP-64 USS Calvert (APA-32), ex-AP-65...
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1959–62. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1962 to 1965 aboard the USS Monrovia and USS Intrepid during the Vietnam War, attaining the rank of Yeoman 3rd...
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Army's 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry. 1/8 embarked on board the USS Monrovia (APA-31) and the ship departed the area for Morehead City, North Carolina...
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George S. Patton. Both officers sailed aboard the flagship transport USS Monrovia. Patton commanded three times as many soldiers as Hewitt had landed eight...
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from the MEU command element, as well as USS Barnstable County, which was used to ferry evacuees out of Monrovia. Remaining on station for the next 121...
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