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USS Ponchatolua
AO-148 Photos
..Refueling USS Midway and escort
destroyer off Formosa Sept. 27, 1958......................by Midway
Joe
 Ponchatoula was commissioned in Jan 1956 and was only 2½ years old when this photo was taken. Three of the Neosho class, (not Ponchatoula), were fitted with helicopter decks above the fantail. All are fitted as flagships. (Note the large outrigger boom on top of the after mast). Not all of the Neosho class oilers had this. The photo I have of the Hassayampa AO-145 doesn't show one. Date Unknown
 US Navy photo
from "All Hands" magazine, May 1958..............................
by Joe Radigan
MACM USN Ret.
USS
Ponchatoula AO-148, and USS Enterprise CVN-65 "The photo
was taken in 1967 in Tonkin Gulf.
USS Arnold J. Isbell DD869 in rear.......Photo
by Barry Litchfield. Night Time UNREP of the USS Allen M Sumner DD-692  USS Ponchatoula
(AO-148) Underway off the coast
of Oahu, Hawaii, 26 March 1970. by PH1 E.L. Goligoski.
 Ponchatoula (T-AO-148) underway, date and place unknown.  Ponchatoula
(T-AO-148), from Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), mid-Pacific, 1991............. by AMS3 Rowan
 Ponchatoula was transferred to
MSC in the late 1970's for further service as fleet oilers. (MSC ship
are disarmed and are operated by a civilian crew. A Navy detachment
remains on board to handle communications.) In May of 1999 Ponchatoula was transferred to
the Maritime Administration at Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet in Benecia, CA.
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