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USS Cimarron (AO-22), 1939-1969

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USS Cimarron, first of the Navy's many World War II era T-3 type oilers was built at Chester, Pennsylvania. She went into commission in March 1939 and transported oil along the west coast and to Hawaii during her first year of service. In mid-1940, Cimarron entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard to receive her armament and other features required for her intended combat support employment. Upon completion of this work in the Spring of 1941, she began operations in the Atlantic that lasted until March 1942, when she transited the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet.

Cimarron's first Pacific war undertaking was to provide oil for the carriers and other ships involved in the April 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan. In June she replenished ships taking part in the Battle of Midway. During the rest of 1942 and into 1943, the oiler took part in the Guadalcanal campaign and the early stages of the Central Solomons campaign. She spent the rest of the war supporting the advance across the central Pacific and up toward Japan. After the fighting stopped in August 1945, Cimarron remained in the Far East to assist with occupation efforts until early 1946.

During the later 1940s, Cimarron transported oil from the Persian Gulf to the Pacific. She operated in Asiatic waters during the Korean War, making four deployments to the war zone in 1950-53. Following the end of that conflict, her pattern of regular trans-Pacific voyages to support the Seventh Fleet continued for some sixteen more years, including Vietnam War operations in 1965-68. Following nearly three decades of Navy service, during much of which she was the oldest ship on active duty, USS Cimarron was decommissioned in October 1968. She was sold for scrapping in 1969.

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