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APA-91 Adair

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)
Windsor Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down as SS Exchester a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A3) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 594) at Bethlehem-Sparrow Point Shipyard, Sparrow Point, MD.
  • Commissioned USS Adair (APA-91), 15 July 1944, Capt. S. P. Comly in command
  • During World War II Adair was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 11 to 12 January 1945     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 5 April 1945

  • Decommissioned, 30 April 1946, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Returned to the Maritime Commission, 3 May 1946, for disposal
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 8 May 1946
  • Sold for commercial service in 1947 to American Export Lines, Inc., New York, N.Y. renamed SS Express
  • Sold to Mutual Steamship Operating Co., (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, scrapped 1970
  • Adair received two battle stars for her World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 7,970 t.(lt), 13,132t.(fl)
    Length 473' 11"
    Beam 66'
    Draft 25'
    Speed 18.6 kts.
    Complement 555
    Troop Accommodations 1,514
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts
    two twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    eighteen single20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion
    one Geared Turbine Drive
    two Babcock and Wilcox header-type boilers
    one propeller, design shaft horsepower 8,000
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    Adair 101k Adair (APA-91) underway, circa 1944, place unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Robert Hurst
    Adair 114k Sketch of Adair (APA-91) by Chief Quartermaster Russell Gibbs USN USS Adair (APA-91) Joseph S. Cooper with the permission of Russell Gibbs
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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 Adair APA-91
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