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Uss CHIPOLA 4.40 63D Named after a river flowing -through Georgia and Florida, USS CHIPOLA QAO 632 has had a long, if interrupted, career since her launching at Sparrows Point, Maryland on 21 October 1944. CHIPOLA was commissioned on 50 November 1944 in plenty of time to engage in action in the Pacific Theater of World War II. She received three battle stars for her refueling of attack ships in the campaigns at Iwo Jima, Oki- nawa, and Third Fleet operations against Japan. CHIPOLA was on hand for that historic moment when the instrument of surrender ending WW II was signed aboard USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. After the war the CHIPOLA served as a tanker transporting fuel from literally one end of the world to the other, making about twenty trips around the world while so engaged. - Upon the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, CHIPOLA served with the Seventh Fleet for which participation she earned the Korean Service Medal. On 1 August 1955, shortly after the war,s end, CHIPOLA was placed out of commission. Her rest was fairly short lived as she was recommissioned on 29 September 1956 as an MSTS tanker. In this capacity she carried fuel along the Fast coast of the United States until she was again placed out of commission on 7 November 1957. CHIPOLA remained in moth balls until September 1960 when she was once again called on by the Navy to resume her role in the auxiliary Heet. Out- litted and readied for sea, she was recommissioned in Baltimore, Maryland on 17 December. One month later she left those snowy climes for the natior1's only Pacific Island state. She arrived in Pearl Parbor on 10 March 1961. Since arriving in the Pacific, CHIPOLA has completed three previous deplop- ments with the Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. During her fourth deplop- ment in WESTPAC, CHIPOLA refueled more than three hundred ships, an example of the continued reliability and effort of the ship and crew. CHIPOLA's record of service is an impressive one. Her officers and men look forward to continued operations in the Pacifie area, upholding the Service -Force Motto-Service, Mobility, Support. This is the story of her fourth deploy- I'I1CI1f.
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WITH THE CHALLENGE AHEAD AS PLEASANTLY AS POSSIBLE. j WE SAID ALOHA
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