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USS Wasatch (AGC-9)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Hotel - Delta - Tango
 NHDT
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 (5)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippine Liberation Medal
Mount McKinley Class Amphibious Force Command Ship:
  • Laid down as SS Fleetwood, a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC Hull 1349) at North Carolina Shipbuilding Corp., Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 8 October 1943
  • Acquired by the Navy, 31 December 1943
  • Renamed Wasatch and converted to an Amphibious Force Command Ship at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Commissioned USS Wasatch (AGC-9), 20 May 1944, CAPT. Alford M. Granum, USN, in command
  • During World War II USS Wasatch (AGC-9) was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Western New Guinea operations
    Morotai Landings - 15 to 17 September 1944    		 Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
    Mindanao Island landings - 17 April 1945
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings - 20 to 29 October 1944    		 Borneo operations
    Brunei Bay operation - 1 July1945
    Luzon operations
    Lingayen Gulf landings - 6 to 18 January 1945     		.

  • Decommissioned, 30 August 1946, at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group in April 1947
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 January 1960
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal
  • Final Disposition sold for scrapping to the National Metal and Steel Corp, Terminal Island CA.
  • USS Wasatch received five battle stars for her 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 dual purpose 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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    Wasatch 1277k Port bow view of USS Wasatch (AGC-9) off Navy Yard Norfolk, VA., 4 May 1944. She is painted in Measure 32 design 8F.
    Navy Yard Norfolk photo #1719 (#14).    		 Daniel A. Guntin MMOM3/c USS Wasatch USS LCI(l)-970
    Wasatch 69k USS Wasatch (AGC-9) underway while departing Navy Yard Norfolk, VA., 31 May 1944.
    US Navy photo    		 Robert Hurst
    Wasatch 84k Overhead view of USS Wasatch (AGC-9), date and location unknown. .
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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