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USS Alpine (APA-92)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Zulu - Uniform - Kilo
NZUK

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (2) - Navy Unit Commendation
Second Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)
Personnel Awards

Purple Hearts (18 November 1944, Leyte Gulf, 5 KIA, 18 WIA, 1 April 1945, Okinawa, 16 KIA 19 WIA)

Alpine Class Attack Transport:

Laid down, 12 April 1943, as SS Sea Arrow a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 281) at Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Francisco, CA.

Launched, 10 July 1943

Acquired by the Navy, 30 September 1943

Commissioned USS Alpine (APA-92), 22 April 1944, CAPT. Walter L. Taylor, in command, relieved the same day by CDR Roger E. Perry

Decommissioned, 4 October 1943, at her conversion yard, Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR.

Recommissioned, 22 April 1944, CDR. G. K. Reilly, in command

During World War II USS Alpine (APA-92) was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

**Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns**
Campaigns and Dates	Campaigns and Dates
Marianas operation Capture and Occupation of Guam, 21 to 27 and 29 July 1943	Manila Bay-Bicol operation Zambales-Subic Bay, 29 to 30 January 1945
Leyte operation Leyte landings, 20 October and 18 November 1944	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 16 April 1945
Luzon operation Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 January 1945

Following World War II USS Alpine was assigned to Occupation and China service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal	China Service Medal (extended)
8 to 19 September 1945
17 October to 9 November 1945	17 October to 9 November 1945

Decommissioned, 5 April 1946

Returned to the Maritime Commission, 10 April 1946 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1946

Sold for commercial service in 1947 renamed SS India Mail

Resold in 1965, renamed SS Transwestern

Resold in 1969, renamed SS Buckeye Pacific

Resold in 1971, renamed SS Empire Pacific

Final Disposition, scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 1971

USS Alpine earned five battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation for World War II operations

Specifications:
Displacement 8,591 t.(lt), 16,100 t.(fl)
Length 492'
Beam 69' 6"
Draft 26' 6"
Speed 18.4 kts.
Complement

Officers 41

Enlisted 437
Troop Accommodations

Officers 91

Enlisted 1,420
Staff Accommodations

Officers 43

Enlisted 108
Largest Boom Capacity 30 t.
Cargo Capacity non-refrigerated 180,500 Cu ft, 4,500 DWT
Boats

12 LCVP

4 LCM (Mk-6)

3 LCP(L) (MK-IV)
Armament

2 single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mounts

four twin 40mm AA gun mounts

18 single 20mm AA gun mounts
Fuel Capacities

NSFO 8,510 Bbls

Diesel 750 Bbls
Propulsion

one General Electric geared drive turbine

two Combustion Engineering D-type boilers, 465psi 765°

double General Electric Main Reduction Gears

three turbo-drive 300Kw 120V/240V D.C. Ships Service Generators

single propeller, 8,500shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Alpine (APA-92)
	69k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92) underway while a part of the Guam amphibious invasion force, July 1944. Photo taken from USS Ringgold (DD-500)**, Dwight Spayth collection.	John Chiquoine
	52k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92) at anchor off Okinawa, 3 April 1945 undergoing repairs after being hit by a kamikaze two days earlier. Note USS Grasp (ARS-24)** lies alongside US National Archives photo # (80-G-311835), a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives	Robert Hurst
	80k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92)** underway near Naval Station, Seattle, WA., 5 July 1945. The two twin 40 mm mounts added forward to some units of this class in mid-1945 are located at the base of the forward pair of kingposts. In this ship, the directors for these mounts were located a third of the way up the kingposts. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. 19-N-90193, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command.	Mike Green
	45k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92)** anchored off Nagoya, Japan in 1945 just after surrender.	Jeffrey P.Costello for his father, Philip J. Costello, MoMM3 USS Alpine 1945-46
	45k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92)** anchored at Manila Bay, PI, circa 1945.	Jeffrey P.Costello for his father, Philip J. Costello, MoMM3 USS Alpine 1945-46
	51k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92)** moored pierside, date and location unknown.	Russ Padden
	55k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92)** ship's officers, date and location unknown.	Russ Padden
	50k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92)** officers, date and location unknown.	Russ Padden
	25k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92)** commanding officer, date and location unknown.	Russ Padden
	64k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92)** ship's officers, date and location unknown.	Russ Padden
	70k	*USS Alpine* (APA-92)** engine room watch standers, date and location unknown.	Russ Padden
Commercial Service
	99k	Ex-*USS Alpine* (APA-92)** in commercial service as the Pack & Kahn Inc. SS Transwestern working heavy cargo in the port of Bremerhaven, Germany, April 1968.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
	114k	SS Transwestern working heavy cargo in the port of Bremerhaven, Germany, April 1968.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus

USS Alpine (APA-92)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command

Commanding Officers
01	CAPT. Taylor, Walter Lucian	30 September 1943 - 30 September 1943
02	CDR. Perry, Roger Edison	30 September 1943 - 8 October 1943
	Decommissioned	8 October 1943 - 22 April 1944
03	CDR. Reilly, George Kenneth Gordon	22 April 1944 - ?


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