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USS Callaway (APA-35)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Yankee - Victor - Bravo
 NYVB
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom. left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 8 January 1945) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (7)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)
Individual Awards

Purple Heart (29 killed in action, 22 wounded in action, 8 January 1945

USS Callaway (APA-35) was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II
Bayfield Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down, 10 June 1943, as SS Sea Mink, a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 270) at Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Francisco, CA.
  • Launched, 10 October 1942
  • Assigned to the Navy as Naval Transport, (AP-80)
  • Redesigned Attack Transport (APA-35)
  • Acquired by the Navy and placed in commission as USS Callaway (APA-35), 24 April 1943, CAPT. D. C. McNeil, USCG, in command
  • During WWII USS Callaway was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Marshall Islands operation
    Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 31 January 1944     		Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 22 October 1944
    Bismarck Archipelago operation
    Emirau, 20 March 1944     		Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 8 January 1945
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Saipan, 15 June 1944     		Iwo Jima operation
    Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, February 1945
    Western Caroline Islands operations
    Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands - Angaur, 17 September 1944     		.

  • Decommissioned, 10 May 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown)
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 12 September 1946, at the Hudson River National Defense Reserve Fleet for disposal
  • Commercial Service
    Transferred without cost to American President Lines, 23 October 1948, at Mobile, AL., renamed SS President Harrison
    Renamed SS President Fillmore in March 1966
    Sold to Waterman Steamship Co., 19 July 1968, renamed SS Hurricane
    Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 30 March 1974, to Dah Yung Steel Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
  • USS Callaway received seven battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 8,100 t.(lt), 16,100 t.(fl)
    Length 492' 6"
    Beam 69' 6"
    Draft 26' 6"
    Speed 18 kts.
    Complement 51 Officers, 524 Enlisted
    Flag Accommodation 43 officers, 108 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodation 80 Officers, 1,146 Enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 200,000 cu. ft., 4,700 t.
    Boats
    twelve LCVPs
    four LCM (Mk-6)s
    three LCP(L) (MK-IV)s
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, one fore and one aft
    two single 40mm AA gun mounts
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion
    one General Electric geared turbine
    two Combustion Engineering D-type boilers
    single propeller, design shaft horsepower 8,500
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    Callaway 64k USS Callaway (APA-35) at anchor, date and location unknown. Her camouflage is Measure 32/16D. Russ Padden
    Commercial Service
    Callaway 111k Ex-Callaway (APA-35) in commercial service as the Waterman Steamship Corp. vessel SS Hurricane working cargo at Bremerhaven, Germany in March 1972. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Callaway 74k SS Hurricane working cargo at Bremerhaven, Germany in March 1972. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Callaway 57k SS Hurricane working cargo at Bremerhaven, Germany in March 1972. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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    Fleet Reserve Association
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