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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

AOR-3 Kansas City

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Zulu - Charlie - Mike NZCM

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (2)
Second Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (3) - Navy Expeditionary Medal (2-Iran/Indian Ocean) - National Defense Service Medal
Third Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Persian Gulf, 1-Op. Restore Hope Somalia) - Vietnam Service Medal (3) - Southwest Asia Service Medal
Fourth Row - Humanitarian Service Medal (1- Boat People) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)

Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler:

Laid down, 18 April 1968, at General Dynamics Corp., Quincy, MA.

Launched, 1 June 1969

Commissioned USS Kansas City (AOR-3), 6 June 1970

During the Vietnam War Kansas City (AOR-3) participated in the following campaigns:

**Vietnam War Campaigns**
Campaigns and Dates	Campaigns and Dates
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII 12 to 27 June 1971	Vietnam Ceasefire 5 to 28 May 1972 9 to 24 June 1972 4 to 19 July 1972 28 July to 15 August 1972 29 August to 8 September 1972 27 September to 18 October 1972 1 to 26 November 1972
Consolidation I 9 to 26 July 1971 6 to 30 August 1971 6 to 8 September 1971 26 September to 13 October 1971 21 October to 3 November 1971	.

Decommissioned, 7 October 1994

Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.

Struck from the Naval Register, 8 April 1997

Custody transferred to MARAD, 24 February 2001

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Kansas City earned the Meritorious Unit Commendation and three campaign stars for Vietnam War service.

Specifications:
Displacement 14,048 t.(lt) 39,790 t.(fl)
Length 659'
Beam 96'
Draft 37' (max.)
Speed 20 kts.
Complement 34 Officers, 463 Enlisted
Armament

two Phalanx Close-In-Weapons System (CIWS)

Sparrow Missile System (NSSMS)
Aircraft two CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters
Propulsion three boilers, two steam turbines, twin shafts, 32,000shp

Size	Image Description	Source
67k	Kansas City (AOR-3), date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Courtesy Greg Peterman MMCM(SS) USN Ret via Brad Bradford ETC USNR Ret
33k	Kansas City (AOR-3), date and location unknown. US Navy photo	.
157k	Aerial view of NAS Alameda piers, circa July-August 1975. Ships present include from left to right: Enterprise (CVN-65), Coral Sea (CV-43), Kansas City (AOR-3), Wabash (AOR-5), and Oriskany (CV-34) US Navy photo from the Naval Photographic Center, Washington, D.C.	Robert M. Cieri
57k	Kansas City (AOR-3), dry docked, at San Francisco, circa early to mid-1980s.	Photo by Mark Townsend via Brad Bradford ETC USNR Ret
92k	Kansas City (AOR-3) underway in San Francisco Bay, date unknown	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
117k	Kansas City (AOR-3) underway, date and location unknown.	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. and Mark Townsend via Brad Bradford ETC USNR Ret
260k	Kansas City (AOR-3) underway in the Pacific Ocean, 2 July 1987. DVIC photo # DN-SC-05-07454, a US Navy photo, by PHAN K. Mcelreath USN, now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.	Bill Gonyo

View the Kansas City (AOR-3)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center

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

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Last Updated 28 December 2007