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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 - Peleliu-15SEP44, Lingayen Gulf-10JAN45) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (8)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal (3)
Personnel Awards

Purple Heart (36 KIA, 136 WIA)
Bayfield Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as Sea Hound, a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-2A) hull, under a Maritime Commission contract at Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, MS.
  • Designated a Naval Transport (AP-86)
  • Launched, 6 November 1942
  • Redesignated Attack Transport (APA-41), 1 February 1943
  • Placed in partial commission, 28 February 1943 through 17 March 1943 for transit to her fitting out yard, Todd Erie Basin Dry Dock, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Recommissioned, USS DuPage (APA-41), 1 September 1943, CAPT. G. M. Wauchope, USNR, in command
  • During World War II DuPage (APA-41) participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaigns and Dates Campaigns and Dates
    Marshall Islands operation
    Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls
    31 January to 6 February 1944
    		 Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines
    Zamboanga
    29 January 1945
    Bismarck Archipelago operation
    Emirau Island operation
    11 April 1944
    Cape Gloucester, New Britain
    28 April to 1 May 1944
    		 Leyte operation
    Leyte landings
    20 October 1944
    14 November 1944
    Marianas operation
    Capture and occupation of Guam
    21 to 26 July 1944
    		 Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings
    9 to 10 January 1945
    Western Caroline Islands operation
    Capture and occupation of Southern Palau Islands-Peleliu
    15 to 27 September 1944
    		 Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto
    5 to 8 July 1945

  • Decommissioned, 28 March 1946, at New York
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 27 June 1946, for disposal
  • Commercial History
    Acquired by Pope and Talbot Steamship Company in 1946 and rename the SS P&T Pathfinder
    Acquired by Moore-McCormick in 1957 and renamed SS Mormacsun
    Acquired by Central Gulf Lines in 1964 and renamed SS Green Port
    Acquired by States-Marine Line in 1967 and renamed SS Pine Tree State
  • Final Disposition, scrapped at Kaosiung, Taiwan in May 1973
  • DuPage received six 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 Accommodations
    80 Officers
    1,146 Enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 175,000 cu. ft., 4,700 t.
    Boats
    12 LCVP
    4 LCM (Mk-6)
    3 LCP(L) (MK-IV)
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 DP gun mounts, one fore and one aft
    two single 40 mm AA gun mounts
    two twin 40 mm AA gun mounts
    eighteen single 20 mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion
    General Electric geared turbine
    2 Foster-Wheeler D-type boilers
    1 propeller
    Design shaft horsepower 8,500
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    Fayette 151k Transports steam in column off Pavuvu, Russell Islands, August 1944, probably during exercises preceding the Palaus operation. Photographed from Fayette (APA 43), looking forward, showing her kingposts and LCVPs stowed on deck. Pinkney (APH 2) is leading the column, followed by Elmore (APA 42) and DuPage (APA 41). Photo by Sgt McBride, USMC, 1st Division.
    USMC photo # 94719    		 US Naval Historical Center
    DuPage 49K DuPage (APA 41) at anchor in San Francisco Bay, 11 May 1945.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2630-45-54.    		 .
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS DuPage (APA-41) Association
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