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USS Prairie (AD–15) was a Dixie-class destroyer tender built just before the start of World War II for the U.S. Navy. Her task was to service destroyers in, or near, battle areas and to keep them fit for duty. Prior to U.S. entry into World War II, Prairie cruised between Atlantic ports from Colon, C.Z. to Argentia, Newfoundland.
In the summer of 1941, USS Prairie (AD-15) deployed to Argentia to house flag headquarters for the base. On 7 December 1941 the United States entered World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Construction ramped up at US facilities in Newfoundland; for coast defense batteries this was primarily at Argentia.
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Prairie, after the grassland prairie. The first USS Prairie (AD-5) was an auxiliary cruiser purchased in 1898 for the Spanish–American War, and in periodic service until sold in 1923. The second USS Prairie (AD-15) was a destroyer tender in service from 1940 to 1993.
Naval Base Majuro was a major United States Navy base built on Majuro Atoll, in the Marshall Islands to support the World War II efforts in the Pacific War. The base was built after the Battle of Majuro-Kwajalein ended 3 February 1944. Majuro was found to be unoccupied and abandoned when the United States Army arrived. The US Navy built ...
USS Melville (AD-2) P. USS Prairie (AD-5) This page was last edited on 27 March 2013, at 04:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Lyle Eugene Hollister, born 6 July 1923 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, enlisted in the Navy on 26 March 1941 at Minneapolis, Minn. Radioman Second Class Hollister first served in Prairie (AD-15) before being assigned to Plunkett (DD-431) and Relief (AH-1). After duty at the Naval Station Key West, Hollister was reassigned to Plunkett.
USS Prairie (AD-5), formerly Morgan Liner SS El Sol, was built in 1890 by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia. She was purchased by the United States Navy on 6 April 1898 from the Southern Pacific Company , and commissioned two days later at New York , Commander Charles J. Train in command.
Operation Pierce Arrow was a U.S. bombing campaign at the beginning of the Vietnam War.. In response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident when the destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy of the United States Navy engaged North Vietnamese ships, sustaining light damage [1] as they gathered electronic intelligence while in the international waters of the Gulf of Tonkin, U.S. President Lyndon B ...