File:USNS Cedar Creek (T-AO-138) in ca1950.jpg

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The U.S. Military Sealift Command fleet oiler USNS Cedar Creek (T-AO-138), circa in 1950. She was fitted with an extra platform to transport aircraft to the Korean theater of war. This platform was called "Machano Decking" and created 1,100 square metres of deck.

Cedar Creek was built by Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania (USA), in 1943, and lend leased to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on 30 April 1944. She was returned to the Maritime Commission in March 1948, acquired by the U.S. Navy and classified AO-138 in July 1948, and operated in a noncommissioned status by a civilian company under contract with the Navy. In October 1949 she was assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service and continued operations with a civilian crew. On 28 September 1954 she was placed in reserve at San Diego where she remained until 1 November 1956 when she again transferred to MSTS. She was stricken from the Naval Register and turned over to the Maritime Administration on 14 October 1957.
Date circa 1950
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine March 1951, p. 14.
Author U.S. Navy
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(Reusing this file)		 "All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."

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