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By 75k USS Chipola (AO-63) refueling USS Wasp (CV-18), late January 1945. Chipola is wearing camouflage scheme 32/5AO in this photo. Steve Whitby
091906335 136k USS Chipola (AO-63) Arctic Circle Crossing Certificate, 27 July 1951, issued to J.A. Turner, USN Tommy Trampp
091906336 211k USS Chipola (AO-63) moored at San Pedro, CA., 17 May 1952. David Wright 56k USS Chipola (AO-63) enroute from Norfolk, VA. to Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1952. Photo from USS Putnam (DD-757) Photo by Stan Cochran USS Putnam 96k USS Chipola (AO-63) with USS Deuel (APA-160) alongside, circa 1952, at Thule, Greenland during "Operation Blue Jay". Note the hole in Chipola's bow. George Panos, QMS2C USS Earle B. Hall 155k USS Chipola (AO-63) underway, circa 1950s, location unknown.
US National Archives Identifier (NAID) 7573632, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the holdings of the US National Archives. Robert Hurst 935k USS Chipola (AO-63) alongside USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) during an underway replenishment in the Mediterranean Sea. Photo was taken during Coral Sea's 1954 Med Cruise (7 July to 20 December 1954). Note USS Benner (DDR-807) in the third picture astern of Chipola JP. MTC(SS) for his father-in-law Joseph A. Wolfe USN Ret. USS Coral Sea 977k 953k 250k USS Chipola (AO-63) underway, 12 July 1954 off Toulon, France. Mike Smolinski 209k USS Chipola (AO-63) at anchor at Hong Kong in 1962. It looks like she may have gotten her hull painted while there. Ron Reeves 145k USS Chipola (AO-63) under way, 17 April 1964, in the Pearl Harbor channel. Three of her after refueling stations (two to port and one to starboard) have been strengthened by providing heavier kingposts with large angled tops. The ship's armament has been reduced to two 3"/50 guns, both aft.
US Navy photo # KN 9500. Photo - Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
Caption - Robert Hurst, courtesy Shipscribe.com 160k USS Chipola (AO-63) under way, circa 1965, location unknown.
US Navy photo. Ron Reeves 207k USS Chipola (AO-63) delivers NSFO to USS Bennington (CVS-20) and USS O'Brien (DD-725) while underway in Pacific Ocean in the spring of 1964. Photo was taken from USS Eversole (DD-789). The destroyer on the extreme right is unknown. Photo by Travis Moffat ETR2, submitted by Larry Backus USS Bausell 440k USS Eversole (DD-789) comes alongside USS Chipola (AO-63) to receive fuel while underway in the Pacific Ocean in the spring of 1964. Photo by Travis Moffat ETR2 USS Eversole, submitted by Larry Backus USS Bausell 205k USS Chipola (AO-63) delivers NSFO to USS Bennington (CVS-20) while underway in the Pacific Ocean in the spring of 1964. Photo by Travis Moffat ETR2 USS Eversole, submitted by Larry Backus USS Bausell 228k USS Chipola (AO-63) delivers NSFO to USS Bennington (CVS-20) while underway in the Pacific Ocean in the spring of 1964. Photo by Travis Moffat ETR2 USS Eversole, submitted by Larry Backus USS Bausell 72k USS Chipola (AO-63) delivers NSFO to USS Bausell (DD-845) while a helo delivers the mail during an UNREP in the Gulf of Tonkin in February 1966. Photo by Larry Backus USS Bausell 45k USS Chipola (AO-63) at Pearl Harbor, March 1968 Photo by Jim McCoy 92k USS Chipola (AO-63) refueling USS Princeton (LPH-5) during operations in the Pacific, 25 June 1968.
US Navy photo #USN 1142529 by PH3 Carty, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center US Naval Historical Center 96k USS Chipola (AO-63) delivers fuel, supplies, movies and mail to USS Eversole (DD-789) in the Pacific Ocean, circa late-1968s-early 1970s Steve Beech USS Bausell 104k USS Chipola (AO-63) in bound from sea to the Port of Wellington New Zealand, 19 November 1972. Photo from the Chris Howell collection with copyright 165k USS Chipola (AO-63) moored pierside in the Port of Wellington New Zealand, 19 November 1972. Photo from the Chris Howell collection with copyright 2381k USS Chipola (AO-63) outbound to sea from Wellington, New Zealand, 20 November 1972. Photo from the Chris Howell collection with copyright 48k USS Chipola (AO-63) under way, date and location unknown. Tommy Trampp 70k USS Chipola (AO-63) under way, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. Paul L. Adkisson MMCM USN Ret. 159k USS Chipola (AO-63) moored pierside at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, HI., date unknown. Moored opposite side of the pier is USS Kawishiwi (AO-146).
Photo by Michael Longseth. Ron Reeves 179k USS Chipola (AO-63) drydocked at Naval Shipyard Pearl Harbor, HI., date unknown. Ron Reeves 164k Command Master Chief Paul L. Adkisson MMCM USN presents the USS Chipola (AO-63) Commissioning Pennant to the ship's last commanding officer CDR. Terry G. Caston USN during decommissioning ceremonies, 14 August 1973, at Pearl Harbor, HI. Paul L. Adkisson MMCM USN Ret.
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