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The U.S. Navy attack cargo ship USS Thuban (AKA-19). Three PhibLant ships, USS Alshain (AKA-55), Thuban and USS Deuel (APA-160) participated in a 32-day half-way-around-world lift which saw them carrying a complete Marine Air Group from Norfolk, Virginia (USA), to Yokohama, Japan. The three ships carried more than 1400 Marines and some 4200 tons of equipment. The group was accompanied by two escort carriers, USNS Corregidor (T-CVE-58) and USS Palau (CVE-122), which carried a cargo of planes and more than 400 vehicles of various types. The planes and the vehicles were

serviced for by 300 Marine aircrewmen.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine January 1954, p. 40.
Author U.S. Navy
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