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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 - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Adair APA-91
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