This page is confined to photos and stories related to events occurring during the Navy's Solant Amity I Cruise to South America and Africa, November 1960 through May 1961. This is but a part of the story involving the members of the G" Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment out of Camp LeJeuene, North Carolina and the crews of three ships of the U.S Navy: The USS Graham County LST 1176, later to become the AGP 1176, the USS Gearing DD710 and the USS Hermitage LSD-34.

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2-6-2 Mess Hall
Camp LeJeune, NC 1960

Trinidad, BWI
 
USS Graham County

Shellback Ceremony
1st Sergeant Perkins &
Gunny Lykens

Equator Crossing
USS Graham County
LST 1176 

Equator Crossing



Equator Crossing


Equator Crossing


Equator Crossing


Equator Crossing


Photo by Richard
Landry


Recife, Brazil
Christmas Eve, 1960

Recife as seen from
Olinda, Brazil

Nightime in Recife

Olinda, Brazil
The church of
Our Lady of Carmo

Olinda, Brazil
The church of
Our Lady of Carmo

USS Graham County
LST 1176
Well Worn Lighter


Provided by Jack L. Oaks
Former Crew Member


Shellback Certificate
, Which
Was Really More of a
Shellback "Card."


USS Gearing DD-710 "She was a tin can, a destroyer, the lead ship of the U.S. Navy's Gearing class... "
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Leaving the Gearing
and returning to the Graham County




Capetown, South African
Demonstration Landing
of Helicopters at
Woodstock Beach


USS Graham County
LST 1176
After Conversion to AGP-1176

[ History of LST-1176]

Capetown, South African
Demonstration of Parashoot
Landing by Recon Forces
at Woodstock Beach

Minicone's Shellback Certificate
Why were two kinds issued?*

USS Gearing DD710
Abijan, Ivory Coast

Sailor: Herb Gray

Marines: Meredith Phillips
& Ed Shea



Pounds from the
British West Indies
1960


Point Noire, Congo


Capetown, South African
Landing Demonstration at
Woodstock Beach

For Story Click Here



Ed Shea
January 1961
Monrovia, Liberia

Pfc Arthur Busbee &
Pfc Meredith Phillips



Bathurst, Gambia


Schmidt & Teklits
Rota or Cadiz, Spain

Francs from the former
French African Colonies
1960

USS Graham County's***

Solant Amity I - Travel Log


"Landing Ship Dock"
LSD-34 USS Hermitage


Cape Point, South Africa

Cape T
own, South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

View Cape Town from
Table Mountain

Chaplain Kingsley and Lt. Carver provide a three month's supply of milk on behalf of the United States, in Cape Town, SA in March of 1961.

Troops pass in review for Monrovia's President Taubman in Monrovia, Liberia in January of 1961.

Joe Teklits & Ed Shea

LST-1176 Off Cape Town


Another great photo of
USS Graham County
LST 1171.



Photo of Entire Company
G - 2 - 6 **

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Squad Leader's
Notebook Record
Your
Stuff
Here


Officers & Staff NCOs
G-2-6

Your
Stuff
Here

Brazilian Cruzeiros

1960

Gary Fusco & Pete Greco
Graham County -LST 1176

Sgt. Bailey at
African Orphanage

United Nations Medal


Deserved Yet Denied


Mameluke Sword


[ From WW I to 1987 ]

Solant Amity I

3rd Platoon's Travel Log****


* Provided by Rocco Minicone, ** Provided by Douglass Carver, *** Provided by Steve Fetterly, Corpsman
*
***Third Platoon Log furnished by George Bitsoli;

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