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USS Garrard (APA-84)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - Kilo - November - Yankee
 NKNY
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia Clasp)
Gilliam Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down, date unknown, as a Maritime Commission type (S4-SE2-BD1) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1877) at Consolidated Steel Corp, Wilmington, CA.
  • Launched, 13 January 1945
  • Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission, 2 March 1945
  • Commissioned USS Garrard (APA-84), 3 March 1945, at San Pedro, CA., LCDR. Walter Barnett, Jr., in command
  • During WWII USS Garrard was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
    TransRon Twenty-Four, COMO E. L. Short;
    TransDiv Seventy and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 27 to 30 June 1945     		3rd Fleet operations against Japan, 10 to 22 July and 13 to 15 August 1945

  • Following World War II USS Garrard was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 2 September to October 1945
  • Decommissioned, 21 May 1946, at Bellingham, WA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register in May 1946
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 1 April 1948, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA.
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 3 June 1963, to Zidell Exploration Co. Inc., Portland OR
  • USS Garrard received two battle stars for World War II service

    Displacement 4,247 t.(lt), 7,080 t.(fl)
    Length 426'
    Beam 58'
    Draft 16.9'
    Speed 16.9 kts.
    Complement
    Officers 27
    Enlisted 293
    Troop Capacity
    Officers 47
    Enlisted 802
    Cargo Capacity 85,000 cu. ft., 2,600 t.
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mount
    four twin 40mm AA radar-directed gun mounts
    ten single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Fuel Capacities
    NSFO 9,695 Bbls
    Diesel 375 Bbls
    Propulsion
    two Westinghouse turbo-electric drive
    two Babcock & Wilcox 450psi 750° boilers
    Ships Service Generators
    one turbo-drive 250kW 450V A.C.
    one turbo-drive 150kW 450V A.C
    one turbo-drive100kW 120/240V D.C.
    two propellers 6,000shp
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    Garrard 105k USS Garrard (APA-84) at anchor in Sagami Bay, Japan, 30 August 1945. Photo by LT Strang MC USNR, Garrard Medical Officer Richard F. Appleton
    Garrard 76k USS Garrard (APA-84) Officers, Ulithi, April 1945. Tom McInteer
    Garrard 89k USS Garrard (APA-84) Officers, Leyte, 6 July 1945. Tom McInteer
    Garrard 63k USS Garrard (APA-84) Boat Group, Philippines, 1945. Tom McInteer
    Garrard 63k USS Garrard (APA-84) Boat Group, date and location unknown. Tom McInteer
    Garrard 76k Boat Group staff and cox'ns aboard USS Garrard (APA-84) near Okinawa, 10 August 1945. Photo provided by CDR. David Rodney Rehmeyer, top left. R. Potter
    Garrard 96k USS Garrard (APA-84) Commanding Officer and staff of boat group following unopposed landing of U.S. Marines at Yokosuka Navel Base, Japan. Photo provided by CDR David Rodney Rehmeyer (second from left, back row). R. Potter
    Garrard 75k USS Garrard (APA-84) photographed from USS Alabama (BB-60), probably while replenishing units of the Third Fleet off Japan in July or August 1945. Note the fenders rigged to port and the mast and director of the destroyer steaming alongside to starboard.
    US Navy photo # NH 72638 Courtesy Donald. M. McPherson, 1970, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Garrard 111k USS Garrard (APA-84) at anchor with troops on deck circa 1945-1946.
    US Navy photo # NH 98900 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Garrard 73k USS Garrard (APA-84) in San Francisco Bay, CA., probably in early 1946 returning troops from the Western Pacific to the United States as part of Operation "Magic Carpet."
    US Navy photo # NH 98723 donated to the US Naval Historical Center by Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    USS Garrard (APA-84)
    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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