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AP-18 / APA-11 Feland


Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Quebec - Romeo
 NUQR
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (6) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)
Doyen Class Transport:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as Feland (AP-18), a Maritime Commission (P1-S2-L2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 182) at Consolidated Steel Co. Los Angeles, CA.
  • Launched, 10 November 1942
  • Reclassified Attack Transport APA-11, 1 February 1943
  • Commissioned USS Feland (APA-11), 21 June 1943, CAPT. C. A. Mission in command
  • During WWII Feland was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Gilbert Islands operation
    Tarawa, 20 to 28 November 1943     		Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 20 to 21 October 1944
    Marshall Islands operation
    Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 1 to 7 February 1944     		Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 to 10 January 1945
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Saipan, 15 to 21 June 1944
    Capture and occupation to Guam, 22 July 1944     		Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19 February 1945

  • Decommissioned, 15 March 1946, at Seattle, WA.
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1964
  • Feland received six battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,351t.(lt), 6,720 t.(fl)
    Length 414' 6"
    Beam 56'
    Draft 19'
    Speed 19 kts.
    Complement 453
    Troop Accommodations 1,100
    Boats 16 LCVPs
    Armament
    four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eight single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion geared turbine engines, twin screws, 8,800 shaft hp
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    Feland 75k Feland (APA-11), at anchor, date and place unknown. She is painted in camouflage scheme 32/3D.
    US navy photo.    		 Submitted by James P. Thomas for his father
    LTjg. Clifford P. Assad USS Feland
    View the Feland (APA-11)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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