BANNER AGER 1

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Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

    Camano Class Light Cargo Ship
    Keel Laid in 1944 for the US Army as Captain William Galt FS-345
    Acquired by the US Navy 1 July 1950

  1. USNS T-AKL-25
    Placed in service by MSTS 1 July 1950

  2. USNS BANNER T-AKL-25
    Named 5 September 1952

  3. USS BANNER AKL-25
    Commissioned 24 November 1952

    Converted to a Environmental Research Ship August through October 1965
  4. USS BANNER AGER-1
    Redesignated (AGER) 1 June 1967
    Recommissioned (Date Unknown) - Decommissioned 14 November 1969

    Struck from the Naval Register 14 November 1969
    Sold 5 June 1970 for scrapping

Naval Covers

This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

  1. USS Banner AGER-1 Covers Page 1      (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.


 

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Locy Type
7
17002 Branch
Yokosuka, Japan

1969-03-22

Asa AGER-1. The ship had no postal facilities.

 

Other Information

USS BANNER earned the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - Captain William Wylie Galt, USA (19 December 1919 – 29 May 1944).
        Galt was a native of Geyser, in Judith Basin County, Montana. He joined the Army from Stanford, Montana, and by May 29, 1944 was serving as a captain and operations officer (S3) of the 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division. On that day, at Villa Crocetta, Italy, he personally commanded an attack against German positions. He manned a machine gun on a tank destroyer at the front of the assault force, staying at his post in the vehicle's turret and continuing to lead his men despite intense hostile fire. He was killed while still manning his machine gun and, on February 1, 1945, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Galt, aged 24 at his death, was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Great Falls, Montana.

NAMESAKE - (BANNER) A county in western Nebraska with its seat at Harrisburg. The name is a shortened form of Nebraska's nickname, the "banner state.".

Two ships of the US Navy have borne the name BANNER - USS Banner APA-60 and USS Banner AGER-1.

 


 

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