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AGC-8 Mount Olympus

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Kilo - Victor - Bravo
 NKVB
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 - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)
Mount McKinley Class Amphibious Force Command Ship:
  • Laid down, 3 August 1943, as SS Eclipse, a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC 1348) at North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 3 October 1943
  • Renamed Mount Olympus, 27 December 1943
  • Commissioned USS Mount Olympus (AGC-8), 4 May 1944, CAPT. J. H. Schultz in command
  • During World War II Mount Olympus was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 20 to 26 October 1944     		Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landing, 9 to 11 January 1945

  • Decommissioned, 4 April 1956
  • Struck from the Naval Register 1 June 1961
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration 1966 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1973
  • Mount Olympus received two battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,500 t.(lt), 12,580 t.(fl)
    Length 459'3"
    Beam 63'
    Draft 28'2"
    Speed 15 kts.
    Complement
    54 Officers
    568 Enlisted
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 DP gun mounts
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    ten twin 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion
    1 General Electric Geared turbine drive
    2 Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers
    single propeller, designed shaft horsepower 6,000
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    Mount Olympus 99k Mount Olympus (AGC-8) at Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945.
    US Navy photo    		 Warren Henrikson QM1/c
    Mount Olympus 75k Mount Olympus (AGC-8) at anchor in the Whangpoo River, Shanghai, China, circa January 14 to 20 1946. Greg Hook for his uncle Wilson J. Hill RM3/c USS Olympus
    Mount Olympus 64k Mount Olympus (AGC-8) at anchor in the Whangpoo River, Shanghai, China, 14 January 1946. Astern of Mount Olympus is Blue Ridge (AGC-2) Greg Hook for his uncle Wilson J. Hill RM3/c USS Olympus
    Mount Olympus 50k Mount Olympus (AGC-8) at anchor in the Whangpoo River, Shanghai, China, 14 January 1946. Greg Hook for his uncle Wilson J. Hill RM3/c USS Olympus
    Mount Olympus 56k Mount Olympus (AGC-8) underway in 1946 during the US Navy Antarctic expedition, "Operation Highjump."
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, issue dated February 1947.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Mount Olympus 51k Mount Olympus (AGC-8) underway, circa 1952, location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Mount Olympus 40k Mount Olympus (AGC-8) ice bound in the Arctic ice pack, circa 1955.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    Mount Olympus 19k Mount Olympus (AGC-8) at anchor, date and location unknown .
    View the Mount Olympus (AGC-8)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    View copies of Mount Olympus Ships Newspaper/Magazine "OLYMPUSS"
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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