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AGC-10 Auburn

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - 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
Mount McKinley Class Amphibious Force Command Ship:
  • Laid down, 14 August 1943, as Kathay, a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ1) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC Hull 1351) at North Carolina Shipbuilding and Drydock, Wilmington, N.C.
  • Launched, 19 October 1943
  • Acquired by the Navy, 31 January 1944
  • Converted to an Amphibious Force Command Ship at Bethlehem Steel Co., Hoboken, N.J.
  • Commissioned USS Auburn (AGC-10), 20 July 1944, at Hoboken, N.J., CAPT. Ralph Orsen Myers in command
  • During World War II Auburn (AGC-10) was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima - 19 February to 27 March 1945    		 Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto - 31 May to 21 June1945

  • Decommissioned, 7 May 1947, at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal, November 1960
  • Final Disposition sold for scrapping 1961
  • Auburn 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 24'
    Speed 16.4 kts.
    Complement
    54 Officers
    632 Enlisted
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 DP gun mounts
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    fourteen single 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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    Auburn 125k Auburn (AGC-10) at anchor, date and place unknown. Capt Jerry Mason, USN
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