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AGC-3 Rocky Mount

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation
Second Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic -Pacific Campaign Medal (7)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippine Liberation Medal
Appalachian Class Amphibious Force Command Ship:
  • Laid down, 4 December 1942, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-B1) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC 202) at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J.
  • Launched, 7 March 1943
  • Acquired by the Navy, 13 March 1943
  • Converted for Naval Service at Bethlehem Steel Co., Hoboken, N.J.
  • Commissioned USS Rocky Mount (AGC-3), 16 October 1943, CAPT. Stanley F. Patten in command
  • During World War II Rocky Mount (AGC-3) was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Marshall Islands operation
    Occupation ok Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls - 31 January to 4 February 1944
    Occupation of Eniwetok Atoll - 17 February to 2 March 1944    		 Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings - 6 January to 8 March 1945
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Saipan - 15 June to 8 July 1944
    Capture and occupation of Guam - 20 to 24 July 1944    		 Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
    Mindanao Island landings - Zamboanga - 8 to 23 March 1945
    Tinian capture and occupation
    24 July to 1 August 1944    		 Borneo operations
    Tarakan Island operation - 10 to 17 June1945
    Leyte operations
    Leyte landings - 21 to 24 October 1944    		 .

  • Decommissioned, 22 March 1947, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Transferred to the San Francisco Group Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1973
  • Rocky Mount earned seven battle stars, and the Navy Unit Commendation for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,240 t.(lt) 13.910t.(fl)
    Length 459' 3"
    Beam 63'
    Draft 24'
    Speed 16.4 kts.
    Complement
    31 Officers
    472 Enlisted
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 DP gun mounts
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    fourteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion geared steam turbine, single propeller
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