ALAMEDA COUNTY AVB 1

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

LST-1 Class Tank Landing Ship Keel Laid February 17 1943 - Launched May 22 1943 USS LST-32 Commissioned July 12 1943 - Decommissioned July 1946 Laid up in Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group Recommissioned March 7 1951 USS ALAMEDA COUNTY LST-32 Named July 1 1955 USS ALAMEDA COUNTY AVB-1 Reclassified Advance Aviation Base Ship (AVB) September 28 1957 Decommissioned June 25 1962 Struck from Naval Register June 30 1962 NMM ANTEO A-5306 (Italian Naval Service) Sold to Italy November 20 1962 and renamed Fate unknown

Naval Covers

This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

1. Covers Page 1     (1962)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each incarnation of the ship (ie, for each entry in the "Ship Name and Designation History" section). Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.

 

Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Date From to Date To	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

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Post Office Established 1959 - Disestablished June 15 1962

 

Locy Type 2t(n+u)

1960-10-05

Cacheted

 

Locy Type 9fu

1960-10-05

Cacheted

 

Locy Type LDPS 2t(n+u) June 15, 1962

1962-06-15

Last Day Postal Service

 

Other Information

LST-32 earned two battle stars for World War II service
* Convoy UGS-36, April 1 1944
* Invasion of southern France, August 15 to September 21 1944

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

NAMESAKE - A county in California

 

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