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AK-66 /AKA-15 Andromeda

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (3) -Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1)
Second Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Third Row - Korean Service Medal (5) - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)
Andromeda Attack Class Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down as AK-66, 22 September 1942, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-B1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 199), at Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J
  • Launched, 22 December 1942
  • Redesignated Attack Cargo Ship (AKA-15), 1 February 1943
  • Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission on loan-charter, 30 March 1943
  • Commissioned USS Andromeda (AKA-15), 30 March 1943 at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn N.Y., Cdr. William A. Fly in command
  • During World War II Andromeda was first assigned to the European Theater and later to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater participating in the following campaigns:

    Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Sicilian occupation
    9 to 12 July 1943     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, May, June and August 1945
    Salerno landings
    8 to 10 and 22 to 23 September 1944     		.
    Invasion of southern France
    15 to 16 August 1944     		.

  • During the Korean War Andromeda participated in the following campaigns:
    Korean War Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    First UN Counteroffensive
    16 to 17 April 1951     		Second Korean Winger
    2 December 1951
    Communist China Spring Offensive
    26 April to 10 May 1951     		Third Korean Winter
    15 December 1952
    3 to 16 January 1953
    13 to 15 February 1953
    UN Summer-Fall Offensive
    31 August to 2 September 1951
    18 October 1951
    6 November 1951     		.

  • Decommissioned, 1 May 1956, at San Diego CA.
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia WA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960
  • Final Disposition, sold by MARAD, 12 March 1971, to Marine Power and Equipment Co., Seattle WA., fate unknown
  • Andromeda earned four battle stars during World War II and five battle stars during the Korean War
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,556 t.(lt), 13,910 t.(fl)
    Length 459' 3"
    Beam 63'
    Draft 26' 4"
    Speed 16.5 kts.
    Complement 366
    Armament one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four twin 40mm gun mounts, eighteen 20mm guns
    Boats one LCP(L), eight LCM(3), sixteen LCVP
    Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 6,000shp
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    Andromeda 73k Andromeda (AKA-15) pierside, date and place unknown. Michael Morouney
    Andromeda 59k Andromeda (AKA-15) underway, date and place unknown.
    Photo from US Navy pub. ONI-54 A (unclassified).    		 Lou Sander
    Andromeda 223k Andromeda (AKA-15) at anchor in Hong Kong BCC harbor, circa 1954-55.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1955.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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