USS Yancey
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uss-yancey-169-8504640
title:
USS Yancey
text:
USS Yancey (AKA-93/LKA-93) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship built by the Moore Dry Dock Company of Oakland, California for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named in honor of Yancey County, North Carolina. Yancey's keel was laid in May 1944, and the ship was launched in July, and commissioned in October. The ship operated in the Pacific during the war and was a participant in the amphibious landings at Iwo Jima in February 1945 and Okinawa in April. After Japan's s
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Andromeda-class attack cargo ship sunk as an artificial reef off North Carolina
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yancey
date created:
2006-08-05T14:23:34Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T11:58:15Z
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13
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