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USS Fuller (APA-7)
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 USS Fuller (AP-14) (1941 - 1943)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Tango - Golf
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 8 NOV 43) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (9)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)
Personnel Awards

Purple Heart (5-KIA 8 NOV 43)
Heywood Class Transport
  • Laid down in 1919 as SS City of Newport News at Bethlehem Steel Corp, Alameda, CA.
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 12 November 1940
  • Commissioned USS Fuller (AP-14), 9 April 1941, CAPT. P. S. Theiss
  • Redesignated Attack Transport (APA-7), 1 February 1943
  • During WWII USS Fuller was assigned first to the European Theater and then to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater where she participated in the:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings
    7 August 1943     		Western Caroline Islands operation
    Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, 15 September 1944
    Capture and defense of Guadalcanal
    August 1942 to February 1943     		Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, San Pedro Bay, 20 October and 14 November 1944
    Treasury-Bougainville operation
    Occupation and defense of Cape Torokina, 1 to 8 November 1943     		Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 January 1945
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Saipan, 15 to 24 June 1944     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 9 April 1945
    Tinian capture and occupation,
    24 to 25 July 1944     		.

  • Decommissioned, 20 March 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 1 July 1946
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • USS Fuller received nine battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,000 t(lt) 14,450 t.(fl)
    Length 507'
    Beam 56'
    Draft 25' 2"
    Speed 16 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 43
    Enlisted 337
    Troop Accommodations
    Officers 60
    Enlisted 818
    Cargo Capacity 130,000 cu. ft., 2,400 t.
    Armament
    1 single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    4 single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
    2 twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    8 single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion
    4 Babcock and Wilcox header-type boilers
    1 De Laval Steam Turbine, geared turbine drive
    single propeller, designated shaft horsepower 9500
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    USS Fuller (AP-14)
    Fuller 76k USS Fuller (AP-14) at anchor, location unknown, circa 1941.
    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1978.
    US Navy Photo # NH 86975, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Fuller 100k USS Fuller (AP-14), (left) and another transport [probably USS William P. Biddle (AP-15)], (right) unloading troops and equipment into landing craft outside the breakwater at Reykjavik, Iceland, circa 7-8 July 1941.
    US Navy Photo # NH 47011, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    USS Fuller (APA-7)
    Fuller 50k Oil painting or watercolor of USS Fuller (APA-7), circa 1944-45. This picture was the possession of ex-bo's'n Lawrence Thomas Black (deceased). Bo's'n Black was aboard 8 November 1943 when USS Fuller took a direct hit from an air attack at Bougainville's Empress Augusta Bay. John Fuller S1/c - USS Fuller 1945 to 1947
    Fuller 96k Stern view of USS Fuller (APA-7) off San Francisco, 13 March 1944.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1714-44.    		 Darryl Baker
    Fuller 80k Bows on view of USS Fuller (APA-7) off San Francisco, 13 March 1944. Fuller's camouflage is Measure 32 Design 9T.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1719-44.    		 Darryl Baker
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