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| | Askari History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | A, 1991, Navy Department, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division, Washington, D.C. ASKARI (ARL-30) was laid down on 8 December 1944 at Seneca, Ill., by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Co.; launched on 2 March 1945; and sponsored by Mrs. |
 | | On 28 March, she got underway for Jacksonville, Fla., where she was decommissioned on 9 April 1945 for outfitting for her role by the Merrill-Stevens Drydock and Repair Co. The ship was recommissioned as ASKARI on 23 July 1945. |
 | | Bambano Susanto, the military attaché at the Indonesian embassy in Washington, D.C., advised that the ship proceeded to the Naval Base at Surabaja on the eastern end of the island of Java and began repair duties. |
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