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AP-100 / APA-55 Windsor

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (6)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)

Windsor Class Attack Transport

Laid down, 23 July 1942, as SS Excelsior, a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 589) at Bethlehem Steel Corp., Sparrow Point Shipyard, Sparrow Point, MD.

Assigned to the Navy as Naval Transport Windsor (AP-100)

Launched, 29 December 1942

Redesignated Attack Transport, (APA-55), 1 February 1943

Commissioned USS Windsor (APA-55), 17 June 1943, at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth VA., CDR. D. C. Woodward, in command

During World War II Windsor was assigned to the 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, February 1944	Western Caroline Islands operation Capture and occupation of southern Palau Islands, Peleliu, 15 1944
Hollandia operation Humboldt Bay landings, 24 April 1944 Aitape landings, 3 May 1944	Leyte operation Leyte landings, 22 October 1944
Marianas operation Capture and occupation of Guam, 21 July 1944	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 25 July to 5 August 1945

Decommissioned, 4 March 1946, at Mobile, AL.

Struck from the Naval Register, 12 April 1946

Transferred to the War Shipping Administration for disposal, 1 August 1946

Final Disposition, sold for commercial service by the Maritime Commission in 1947, renamed SS Paul Revere

Resold to American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines in 1949 renamed SS Expeditor

Final Disposition, scrapped in Taiwan in 1972

Windsor earned five battle stars for her World War II service

Specifications:
Displacement 7,950 t.(lt), 13,143 t.(fl)
Length 473' 1"
Beam 66'
Draft 25'
Speed 18.6 kts.
Complement

54 Officers

498 Enlisted
Troop Accommodations

91 Officers

1,496 Enlisted
Cargo Capacity 150,000 cu. ft., 1,600 t.
Armament

one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount

two single 40mm AA gun mounts

two twin 20mm AA gun mounts

eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion

one geared turbine drive

two Babcock and Wilcox header-type boilers

single shaft, design shaft horsepower 8,000

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Windsor (APA-55)
	75k	Windsor (APA-55), underway, circa 1943, location unknown. US Navy photo # NH 97870, for the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	105k	Windsor (APA-55), underway, 27 June 1943, location unknown. US Navy photo from ONI 54-A (unclassified)	Stan Svec
Commercial Service
	52k	Ex-Windsor (APA-55) in commercial service as the American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines SS Expeditor underway on the River Weser enroute to Bremen, Germany, March 1966	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus

View the Windsor (APA-55)
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

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Last Updated 26 January 2007