SERVGRU SERVRON Service Groups and Squadrons

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Aloha Everyone,

 

From 1942 into the 1980's, Service Groups and Service Squadrons supported the US Navy combatant fleet units around the globe. After WWII, they were organized in typical USN fashion between the Pacific and Atlantic fleets, with the odd numbered groups and squadrons in the Pacific and the even numbered ones in the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. They were primarily composed of Auxiliary type ships providing logistical supply and support to the fleets. Oilers, Replenishment, Ammunition, Stores, Cargo, Repair, Towing & Salvage and miscellaneous Auxiliary hulls were their mainstay, plus added port, harbor clearance, photo, motion picture, maintenance & technical repair units.

 

Since the end of the Cold War the majority of these seagoing logistics functions are now provided to the Navy by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) and their USNS service fleet (ex-MSTS)

 

Feel free to post any or all items you have from the Service Groups and Service Squadrons which held the line from WWII throughout the Cold War era.

 

 

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SERVICE FORCE ATLANTIC FLEET - 1950's

 

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SERVICE FORCE ATLANTIC FLEET - 1960's

 

 

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SERVICE FORCE ATLANTIC FLEET - 1970's

 

 

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SERVICE FORCE PACIFIC FLEET - COMSERVPAC

Japanese made

 

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SERVICE FORCE PACIFIC FLEET - COMSERVPAC

Different version Japanese made

 

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SERVICE GROUP ONE - West Coast

 

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SERVRON ONE - Service Squadron One, West Coast

 

 

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USS KOKA (ATA-185) Auxiliary Fleet Tug of SERVGRU ONE

 

 

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COMSERVGRU TWO - Service Group 2 Atlantic Fleet, Eastern Seaboard

 

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COMSERVGRU TWO - Service Group 2 Atlantic Fleet, Eastern Seaboard

 

 

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COMSERVGRU TWO - Service Group 2 Atlantic Fleet, 1970's Swiss Tex

 

 

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SERVRON 2 - Service Squadron Two, Atlantic Fleet

 

Different versions

 

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SERVGRU THREE - Service Group Three, Mid Pacific

 

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SERVRON 3 - Service Squadron Three, from the West Coast to Alaska and the Mid Pacific

 

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SERVICE SQUADRON 4 - Mid Atlantic

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SERVRON 4 - Service Squadron Four, Mid Atlantic

 

 

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SERVRON 5

The Pearl Harbor based Salvage forces supporting Guam, Vietnam and the Western Pacific

 

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SERVRON 5 - The Pearl Harbor based Salvage forces supporting Guam, Vietnam and the Western Pacific

 

SERVGRU & SERVRON 5 Plaques

 

 

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Three war Bolster class Salvage ship USS CONSERVER, The "Connie Maru" of SERVRON 5,

homeport Apra Harbor, Guam and later Alpha Docks, Pearl Harbor

 

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SERVICE FORCE SIXTH FLEET - The Mediterranean Sea support force in Naples Italy

 

 

1950's Gemsco

 

 

 

SERVICE FORCE SIXTH FLEET

SERVRON 6 - Service Squadron Six, Mediterranean Sea

 

 

SERVRON 6 - Service Squadron Six, Mediterranean Sea

 

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SERVRON 6 - Service Squadron Six, Mediterranean Sea 1950's

 

 

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SERVRON 6 - Service Squadron Six, Port Services La Maddalena

 

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SERVRON 7 - Service Squadron Seven, the 7th Fleet in Japan (short lived)

 

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SERVRON 8 - Service Squadron Eight, The Caribbean and South Atlantic