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The Four USS Neoshos
The Four U.S.S. Neoshos
During the 20th century, the U.S. Navy named its battleships after
states, cruisers after cities, and destroyers after people.
Likewise, the Navy named its tankers (also known as "oilers") after
rivers. The Neosho River is a tributary of the Arkansas River and
lies in northeastern Oklahoma.
There have been four Navy ships named Neosho including the AO-23,
which this section of my website is devoted to. The four
Neoshos are shown below.
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The second
Neosho, the AO-23, was an oiler that was launched in
1939. As described in this website, the AO-23 served at Pearl
Harbor during the 1941 Japanese attack and was sunk at the Battle of
the Coral Sea in May 1942.
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third Neosho, the AO-48, was an oiler that was launched on
December 23, 1941, two weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack. The
AO-48 was named the U.S.S. Neosho in July 1942, two months
after the AO-23 was sunk at Coral Sea. Ironically, after
being sunk on the Neosho
(AO-23), my uncle, Bill Leu, then served on the Neosho
(AO-48). The AO-48 served in the Pacific throughout World War
II, then was turned over to the Maritime Commission in 1946 for
disposal. It was scrapped in Hamburg, Germany in 1964.
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The fourth
Neosho, the AO-143, was an oiler that was launched
in 1953. This ship served in the Middle East during the 1956
Suez War and during the tense 1962 naval quarantine of Cuba. She
was decommissioned in 1978.
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U.S.S. Neosho
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