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USAT / AP-25 / APA-12 Leonard Wood


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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)
Second Row - Navy Unit Commendation - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Third Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (2) - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (7) - World War II Victory Medal
Fourth Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)

USS Leonard Wood ex US Army Transport manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II
Harris Class Transport:
  • Laid down in 1921 as SS Nutmeg State under a United State Shipping Board (USSB) contract at Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp, Sparrows Point, MD.
  • Entered commercial service, 9 May 1922
  • Renamed SS Western World (date unknown)
  • Purchased by the War Department in 1939
  • Renamed USAT Leonard Wood
  • Acquired by the Navy, 3 June 1941
  • Commissioned USS Leonard Wood (AP-25), 10 June 1941, CDR. H. G. Bradbury, USCG in command
  • Reclassified Attack Transport (APA-12), 1 February 1943
  • Decommissioned, 22 March 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Returned to the Army pending transfer to the Maritime Commission
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 20 June 1948, to Consolidated Builders Inc.
  • Leonard Wood earned eight battle stars and the Navy Unit Commendation for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 13,529 t.(lt) 21,900 t.(fl)
    Length 535' 2"
    Beam 72' 4"
    Draft 31' 3"
    Speed 17 kts.
    Complement 67 Officers, 675 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 117 Officers, 1,809 Enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150,000 cu. ft., 1,700 t.
    Armament
    four single 3"/50 gun mounts
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    sixteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion eight Yarrow header-type boilers, two Curtis type turbines, two propellers, designed shaft horsepower 12,000
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    USAT Leonard Wood
    Leonard Wood 50k USAT Leonard Wood, date and location unknown. Tom Kermen
    Leonard Wood 65k USAT Leonard Wood, in the Panama Canal Zone, May 1941 M/Sgt M.L. McCormick, USAF Ret
    Leonard Wood 51k USAT Leonard Wood at Ketchikan Alaska, circa 1941 Joe Stevens
    Kodiak Alaska Military History web site
    USS Leonard Wood (APA-12)
    Leonard Wood 37k Leonard Wood (APA-12), date and place unknown. Ken Laesser
    Leonard Wood 110k Leonard Wood (APA-12) underway, starboard bow view, 28 April 1944, off the coast of southern California. Her paint is camouflage scheme 32/4T.
    US Navy photo # 6206 US Naval Air Station, San Pedro, CA.     		Mike Green
    Leonard Wood 45k Leonard Wood (APA-12) in San Francisco Bay, circa late 1945 early 1946. Photo Courtesy Ben Webster in honor of his brother, Duane Kenneth Webster USS Leonard Wood US Coast Guard Historian's Office
    View the Leonard Wood (APA-12)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact and Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office - USS Leonard Wood (AP-25 / APA-12)
    USS Leonard Wood Association
    Mr. Gene Hoski USS Leonard Wood Association President
    49522 Main Drive Plymouth, MI. 48170
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