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APV-1 / AKV-1 Kitty Hawk

Radio Call Sign: November - Bravo - Lima - November

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Kitty Hawk Class Aviation Transport:

Laid down for Seatrain Lines, 21 February 1932, as Seatrain New York at Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, PA.

Launched, 19 September 1932

Acquired by the Navy, 25 June 1941

Renamed Kitty Hawk, 8 July 1941

Converted to an Aircraft Transport at Tietjin & Land Dry Dock Co., Hoboken, N.J.

Commissioned Transport and Aircraft Ferry, USS Kitty Hawk (APV-1), 26 November 1941, at New York Navy Yard

Redesignated Aircraft Transport (AKV-1), 15 September 1943

Decommissioned, at New York, struck from the Naval Register, and returned to Seatrain Lines, Inc., 24 January 1946

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 14,000 t.(lt), 16,480 t.(fl)
Length 478'
Beam 63' 6"
Draft 26' 3"
Speed 17 kts.
Complement 245
Armament one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four 3"/50 dual purpose guns
Propulsion Steam Turbine, single propeller, 8,800shp

Size	Image Description	Source
77k	A Grumman F4F-4 "Wildcat" fighter is lifted on board Long Island (ACV-1) from Kitty Hawk (APV-1), at Fila Harbor, New Hebrides, 28 August 1942. This plane was en route to Guadalcanal as part of the second group of US Marine Corps planes to be based at Henderson Field. Note that the F4F's markings appear to have been taped over. US National Archives photo # 80-G-73394, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
95k	Kitty Hawk (APV-1) underway, October 1942. US Navy photo from DANFS	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
75k	Kitty Hawk (APV-1) at anchor, date and place unknown. US Navy photo from DANFS	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret

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Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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