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USS Charles Carroll (APA-28)
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 USS Charles Carroll (AP-58) (1942 - 1943)

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (5)
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Crescent City Class Transport
  • Laid down, 24 March 1942, as SS Del Uruguay, a Maritime Commission type (C3P-Delta) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 150) for the Mississippi Shipping Co. at Bethlehem Steel Corp. Sparrow Point, MD.
  • Commissioned USS Charles Carroll (AP-58), 13 August 1942, CDR. H. Beisemeier in command
  • Redesignated Attack Transport APA-28, 1 February 1943
  • During World War II USS Charles Carroll 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
    North African occupation
    Algeria-Morocco landings, 8 to 13 November 1942     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 5 April 1945
    Sicilian occupation
    Scoglitti, 10 July to 17 August 1943     		.
    Salerno landings
    9 to 21 September 1943     		.
    Invasion of Normandy
    6 June 1944     		.
    Invasion of southern France
    Saint Raphael, 15 August 1944     		.

  • Decommissioned, 27 December 1946, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Custody transferred to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 29 October 1958
  • Disposed of by MARAD sale, 1 April 1977
  • Final Disposition, scrapped, date unknown
  • USS Charles Carroll received six battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,409 t.(lt), 14,247 t.(fl)
    Length 491'
    Beam 56' 6'
    Draft 25' 8"
    Speed 16 kts.
    Complement 58 Officers, 554 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 67 Officers, 1,255 Enlisted
    Armament
    four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion General Electric geared turbine drive, 2 boilers, Design shaft horsepower 7,800
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    USS Charles Carroll (AP-58)
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    Namesake

    Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Annapolis, Md., 20 September 1737. A lawyer, he studied at Paris and London, where he was admitted to membership in the Inner Temple. He died in Baltimore, Md., 14 November 1832.
    Photo: Smithsonian Institution Libraries ID: SIL14-C1-13a    		 Bill Gonyo
    Charles Carroll 72k USS Charles Carroll (AP-58) shortly before sailing with Task Force "A" to North Africa, 22 October 1942.
    Official US Army photo produced by US Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, October 22, 1944. Photo now in the collections of the Library of Virginia. Image No. C1:2/01/024.    		 The Library of Virginia, US Army Signal Corps Photograph Collection
    USS Charles Carroll (APA-28)
    Charles Carroll 45k USS Charles Carroll (APA-28) underway, circa November 1943, location unknown.
    U.S. Navy    		 Stan Svec
    Charles Carroll 118k USS Charles Carroll (APA-28), at Norfolk, VA., after refit, preparing for Pacific service, 11 December 1944. She has been repainted in camouflage Measure 32 Design 6T.
    U.S. Navy    		 .
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
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