Dave Skeahan's USS Skagit Photos |
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My name is Dave Skeahan, they call me Skeeter.
I served in the Navy aboard USS Skagit during the Korean War as an Engineman 3rd Class in the Boat Division. I made two WestPac cruises between 1951 and 1953, and was aboard when the ship operated in Korean waters during "Operation Decoy", a feint landing at Kojo, and the building of POW camps at Yancho DO, and Pangam Do called Operation "Spread Out". Below are some of my pictures, memorabilia and memories............ |
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Boot Camp 
George Austin - Royce Painter - Ole Ronnington - "Bub" Skeahan Tom Pendrak - Chuck Johnson 
Administrative Remarks, First Cruise 
Administrative Remarks, Second Cruise 
Rarely Seen Photo of USS Skagit Note: Full Compliment of 24 Boats, with LCVPs Inside The MIKE Boats 
Thanksgiving Menu 1951 
Docking In Pusan, April, 1951 In July 1952 we hauled supplies to build POW Camps 
Bob Barraque, Ken Genn, Wilkerson 
A Load of Lumber 
Tom Koch Cox'n, Eddie Cook, Wilkerson 
Me and Wilkerson with more lumber 
Korean boys cleaning up rice from LCM 
Korean boy cleaning up rice, Bob Parsons in boat. In the Fall of 1952 we made the feint landing at Kojo, with 50 mph winds and high seas. 
Kojo Korea, October 1952 
Kojo Korea, October 1952 
George Rateike Engineman 1st Class August 1951 
Bob Parsons - Tom Koch San Diego February 1953 
Tug Boat, Pusan Korea April 1951 
Army Boat, Koje Do Korea July 1952 Our LCVP picked up an Army General and brought him aboard 
Pilot Boat, Pusan Korea April 1952 
Kojo Korea, October 1952 
Combat equipped Marines clamber down cargo nets into LCVPs for training During an excersize in Pohang November 1952, me and the driver were pinned when a hatch crew hoisted an Army truck before we were out of the well deck. 
For our efforts at Kojo we were awarded the Combat Action Ribbon 
My Medals and Ribbons 
Boot Camp 1950 The Following Are Some Of My Skagit Reunion Photos
Plank Owner CMDR Orville Crawford, Chaplain St. Peters Chapel Mare Island Vallejo, California Sept. 2000 
Zeke and Barbra Forlina - Marlene and Toni Manca Mary and Phil Alongi Sacramento, California Sept. 2000 
Ralph Hedemark - Virginia and Ralph Ianni - Ed "Jim" Beam Sacramento, California Sept. 2000 
Ralph Ianni Sacramento, California Sept. 2000 
Paul Gonneville - Libby and Marilyn Lanning Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky Sept. 1997 ================================================================ 
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