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USS Lejeune (AP-74)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Yankee - Tango - Foxtrot NYTF

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

Lejeune Class Transport:

Built in 1936 as SS Windhuk at Bloom Voss Co , Hamburg, Germany, for Deutsche-Afrika Linten

Interned at Santos, Brazil, December 1939

Acquired from Brazil, 12 May 1942

Placed in ferry commission as USS Lejeune, 26 March 1943 for transfer from Rio de Janeiro to Norfolk for conversion to a Navy Transport

Fully commissioned USS Lejeune (AP-74), 12 May 1944, CAPT. L. E. Kelly in command

Decommissioned, 9 February 1948, at Bremerton, WA.

Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Tacoma, WA.

Struck from the Naval Register in July 1957

Transferred to MARAD, 12 July 1957, at Olympia, WA. for disposal

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 19 August 1966, to Ziedell Expropriations, Inc., Portland, OR.

The USN purchased the ship from Brazil, installed a small diesel engine in it and brought it to the Norfolk Naval Ship yard in 1943. When she arrived in Norfolk, it had been stripped of most of its elegant furnishings such as mahogany & teak wood paneling. A Lt. Buchanan and I were assigned to the ship to supervise re-construction for use as a troop transport which took about a year to recoup all that was lost from sabotage."

Specifications:
Displacement 12,255 t.
Length 572' 8"
Beam 72' 2"
Draft 26'
Speed 17.5 kts.
Complement 501
Troop Capacity 4,660
Armament

one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount

four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts

eight single40mm AA gun mounts

thirteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion steam turbine, twin propellers

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Commercial Service
	57k	SS Windhuk underway in the livery of the Woermann Line, date and location unknown.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
USS Lejeune (AP-74)
	31k	*USS Lejeune* (AP 74)** at Le Harve, France. circa 1945. US Navy photo	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
	42k	*USS Lejeune* (AP 74)** underway, date and location unknown.	Robert Hurst
	73k	*USS Lejeune* (AP 74) underway in harbor, circa Spring 1943 location unknown. Lejeune** appears to be painted in Measure 2 camouflage. The tones and the broad bands of paint support this conjecture. US National Archives photo # 80-G-230500, a US Navy photo now in the US National Archives collection.	Robert Hurst

View the USS Lejeune (AP-74)
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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