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| | USS Beaver (AS-5) (ARG-19) - Ship's History |
 | | USS Beaver, named for the amphibious fur-bearing rodent, was laid down as merchant ship SS Beaver at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Newport News, Virginia. |
 | | USS Gunnel, was bombed by a United States Army aircraft. |
 | | Throughout the operation, USS Gunnel, commanded by John Sidney McCain, Junior, son of Rear Admiral John Sidney McCain, then commander of naval aircraft in the South Pacific, had ceaseless problems with her H.O.R. (Hooven, Owens, and Rentschler Company of Hamilton, Ohio) engines. |
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