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Sunk off Omaha Beach, 7 June 1944

USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Yankee - Sierra - Bravo
 NYSB
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal
Susan B. Anthony Class Transport:
  • Built as SS Santa Clara at New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, N.J., for the Grace Steamship Company
  • Launched in March 1930
  • Delivered to Grace Steamship Company, date unknown) for commercial service
  • Acquired by the Navy, 7 August 1942
  • Converted to a Naval Transport at Bethlehem Steel's New York Yard
  • Commissioned USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72), 7 September 1942, CAPT. Henry Hartley assumed command on 29 September 1942
  • During World War II USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72) was assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    North African occupation
    Algeria-Morocco landings    , 8 to 13 November 1942     		Invasion of Normandy, 7 to 7 June 1944
    Sicilian occupation, 9 to 12 July 1943 .

  • Final Disposition, struck a mine, 7 June 1944, off the "Omaha" Beachhead and sank
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 29 July 1944
  • USS Susan B. Anthony was awarded three battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,193 t.
    Length 605' 2"
    Beam 63' 6"
    Draft 25'
    Speed 18 kts.
    Complement (unknown)
    Troop Accommodations (unknown)
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
    Propulsion steam turbine
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    Susan B. Anthony 61k
    Namesake

    Susan B. Anthony was born at Adams, Mass., on 15 February 1820. In 1852, after teaching school for 15 years, she organized the first women's state temperance society in America; and, in 1856, became the agent of the American Antislavery Society for New York state. However, after 1854, she concentrated most of her efforts upon agitation for women's rights. Between 1868 and 1870, she was the publisher of The Revolution, a New York feminist newspaper edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was vice president at-large of the National Woman Suffrage Association from its inception in 1869 until 1892, when she became president. Asserting that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution entitled her to vote, she cast a ballot in the election of 1872, was arrested and fined $100, which she declined to pay. She collaborated with three other women to write the History of Woman Suffrage, published in four volumes between 1884 and 1887. She died at Rochester, New York, on 13 March 1906.
    Photo from the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (NCWHS)
    ncwhs.oah.org/images/YoungSusanB.jpg    		 Bill Gonyo
    Susan B. Anthony 50k USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72) underway, 14 September 1942.
    US Navy photo.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Susan B. Anthony 99k USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72) anchored at Oran, Algeria, 5 July 1943, just before departing for the invasion of Sicily.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-215100 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    LCT-544 66k USS Susan B. Anthony (AP-72) sinking off Omaha Beach, Normandy, 7 June 1944 after striking a mine. Alongside is USS Pinto (ATF-90) attempting to rescue survivors and fight the fires. Also in the photo is the bow ramp of LCT-544 coming alongside to attempt to take off survivors. Photo was taken from LCT-544 Steve O'Neill in honor of his father William T. O'Neill LCT-544
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