1 | ALAMEDA COUNTY | | (ex-LST 32). Served as an LST until reassigned to the Atlantic Fleet Naval Air Force in April of 1953. By September she was operating out of Naples, Italy, serving as an advanced base support ship with Air Logistics Support Division 2. The classification AVB 1 was belatedly assigned to ALAMEDA COUNTY (LST 32) effective 28 September 1957. She was then described as designed to provide fuel, spare parts, technicians, and facilities necessary to establish and operate an airstrip for patrol and carrier aircraft in locations where there were no base facilities. After the commissioning of AVB 2 she was loaned in 1962 to Italy as ANTEO [21 Nov 1962 in Italian sources] and was stricken on 1 August 1973. |