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AP-94 / APA-49 Ormsby

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (6)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)
Individual Awards

Purple Hearts (2 KIA - Guam, 21 July 1944)

Ormsby Class Attack Transport:

Laid down, 21 July 1942, as SS Twilight, a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-B1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 288), at Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland, CA.

Assigned to the Navy as Naval Transport Ormsby (AP-94), 5 October 1942

Launched, 20 October 1942

Reclassified Attack Transport (APA-49), 1 February 1943

Acquired by the Navy, 10 March 1943

Commissioned USS Ormsby (APA-49), 28 June 1943, CAPT. Leonard Frisco, USNR, in command

During World War II Ormsby was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Gilbert Islands operation Tarawa, 20 November 1943	Marianas operation Capture and occupation of Guam, 21 July 1944
Marshall Islands operation Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 31 January 1944	Western Caroline Islands operation Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, Peleliu, 6 September 1944
Eastern New Guinea operation Wewak-Aitape operation, 23 April and 3 May 1944	Leyte operation Leyte landings, 20 October and 14 November 1944

Decommissioned, 15 March 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 17 April 1946

Returned to the Maritime Commission, 16 May 1946, for disposal

Acquired by the United State Line and renamed SS American Producer, date unknown

Final Disposition, SS American Producer was severely damaged when she struck the pier at San Francisco in March 1969, while outbound for Da Nang, Vietnam, with a cargo of bombs. She was consequently scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in July 1969

Ormsby earned six battle stars for service in World War II

Specifications:
Displacement 13,910 t.(fl)
Length 459' 3"
Beam 63'
Draft 24'
Speed 16.5 kts.
Complement

46 Officers

478 Enlisted
Troop Accommodations

83 Officers

1,465 Enlisted
Cargo Capacity 150,000 cu. ft., 2,700 t.
Armament

two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts

two single 40mm AA gun mounts

four twin 20mm AA gun mounts

eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion

1 General Electric geared drive turbine

2 Foster-Wheeler D-type boilers

1 propeller, design shaft horsepower 6,000

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Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
	120k	Aft plan view of Ormsby (APA-49) moored at San Francisco, 4 July 1943, while conducting inclining experiments. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 4866-43	Darryl Baker
	103k	Forward plan view of Ormsby (APA-49) moored at San Francisco, 4 July 1943, while conducting inclining experiments. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 4867-43	Darryl Baker
	87k	Ormsby (APA-49) amidships looking aft at San Francisco, 17 July 1943. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 5239-43	Darryl Baker
	78k	Plan view forward of Ormsby (APA-49) mooring at San Francisco, 17 July 1943. Note the barrels on the mooring line between the ship and the covered barge. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 5243-43	Darryl Baker
	92k	Broadside view of Ormsby (APA-49) off San Francisco, 18 July 1943. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 5253-43	Darryl Baker
	91k	Ormsby (APA-49) arriving at Astoria, Oregon, circa 1945. The ship had just come through a very violent northern Pacific storm, as evidenced by the condition of her paint. *Ormsby* called at Astoria two time during her career, 22 May 1945 and 20 December 1945. Because of the noted weather in the northern Pacific this photo is more than likely her arrival on 20 December 1945	David Robinson
Commercial Service
	55k	ex-Ormsby (APA-49) in commercial service as the United States Line's SS American Producer approaching Bremen, Germany, December 1962.	Photo by Gerhard L. Mueller-Debus

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DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site

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