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AP-92 / APA-47 Lamar

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Victor - Hotel
NJVH
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 (5) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)


Bayfield Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down, 31 March 1943, as a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 431) at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, 28 August 1943
  • Acquired by the Navy, 10 November 1943
  • Placed in partial commission, 10 November 1943 through 22 November 1943, LCDR. J. H. Budd in command, for transit to her fitting out yard, Todd-Erie Basin, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Recommissioned USS Lamar (APA-47), 6 April 1944, CAPT. Bruce K. Culver in command
  • During WWII Lamar was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Marianas Islands operations
    Assault and occupation of Guam, 21 July 1944
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 4 April 1945
    Leyte operations
    Leyte landings, Dulag, 20 to 21 October and 18 November 1944
    Manila Bay-Bicol operations
    Zambales-Subic Bay, San Narciso landing, 29 January 1945
    Luzon operations
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 to 11 January 1945
    .

  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 26 June 1946, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Decommissioned, 7 July 1946, at Beaumont, TX.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 April 1946
  • Commercial History
    Leased to Luckenbach SS Corp., 9 April 1948
    Purchased by Luckenbach SS Corp., at Baltimore Md., 19 January 1949, renamed SS J.L. Luckenbach
    Sold to Global Bulk Transportation Corp. in July 1979, renamed SS Evergreen Trader
    Final Disposition, sold, 27 May 1971, for scrapping in Taiwan to Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corp.
  • Lamar received five 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
    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 Westinghouse geared drive turbine, 2 Foster-Wheeler D-type boilers, 1 propeller, Design shaft horsepower 8,500

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    Lamar 76k Lamar (APA-47) underway, date and location unknown
    US Navy photo
    George W. Jones
    Lamar 179k Lamar (APA-47) underway, date and location unknown
    US Navy photo
    George W. Jones
    Lamar 71k Lamar (APA-47) underway while a part of the Guam amphibious invasion force, July 1944. Photo taken from Ringgold (DD-500), Dwight Spayth collection. John Chiquoine
    Lamar 61k Lamar (APA-47) underway, date and location unknown
    US Navy photo
    George W. Jones

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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association

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