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Benjamin Kuczera, chief boatswain’s mate, USN, 401 -Baldwin avenue, Connellsville, and other Navy men serving on the auxiliary oiler USS Kennebago figured in a wartime feat that the Navy has placed in its now-it-can-be-told category.The feat was the rescue of the damaged cruisers USS Houston and USS Canberra from the shadow of the Formosa coast, an operation which now has become a Navy tradition. *The Kennebago was one of two oilers sent tq refuel the tugs which were towing the damaged vessels out from under the very nose of the Japs. With a Jap-air attack imminent and a typhoon almost upon, them* the tugs could not stop to take on fueL So the Kennebago and her sister oiler, the USS Pecos, successfully performed the hazardous and delicate operation of refueling the tugs while they kept at then-towing task.Commissioner in December, 1943, the Kennebago was on active duty for 20 months' of the war, during which she traveled more than 91,000 miles to fuel a total of 501 ships with 1,384,174 barrels, of black, diesel and lube oil, besides supplying 3,500,000 gallons cf aviatioji gasoline tocarriers. *The ship saw service in the Aleutians, the Marshalls, Solomons, Admiralties, New Hebrides, the Carolines, Philippines, Peleliu, Saipan, Formosa and Japanese home waters.
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Connellsville Daily Courier
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Nov 24, 1945
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