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APA-193 Sanborn

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2 - Iwo Jima, Okinawa)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Individual Awards

Navy Cross - Byron Alfred Dary Pharmacist Mate (KIA, Iwo Jima)
Silver Star - BM1/c William A. Maroney
Both received the Purple Heart Medal
Haskell Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down, 10 March 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (VC2-S-AP5) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull MCV 661), at Kaiser Shipbuilding Corp, Vancouver, WA.
  • Launched, 19 August 1944
  • Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission and Commissioned USS Sanborn (APA-193), 3 October 1944, CDR. Sidney Hugenin, USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned, 14 September 1946, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Stockton, CA.
  • Recommissioned, 6 January 1951, at San Diego, CA.
  • Decommissioned, 11 May 1956, at Orange, TX.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Orange, TX.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960, and returned to the Maritime Commission
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1971
  • Sanborn received two battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,873 t. (lt) 14,837 t (fl)
    Length 455'
    Beam 62'
    Speed 19 kts.
    Complement 56 Officers, 480 Enlisted
    Troop Capacity 86 Officers 1,475 Enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150,000 cu. ft, 2,900 tons
    Boats 2 LCM, 12 LCVP, 3 LCPU
    Armament one single 5"/38 dual-purpose gun mount, four twin 40mm gun mounts, ten single 20mm gun mounts
    Propulsion 1 Allis-Chalmers geared turbine, 2 Combustion Engineering header-type boilers, 1 propeller, design shaft horsepower 8,500
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    Sanborn 119k Sanborn (APA-193) anchored in Tokyo Bay, 18 November 1945. Bill McDonald III
    in memory of his father Bill McDonald Jr. MM2c(T) USS Sanborn 1944-46
    Sanborn 66k Sanborn (APA-193) at anchor circa late 1944 early 1945. Original 35mm Kodachrome transparency, photographed by LT.Howard W. Whalen, USNR, Boat Group Commander, USS Sanborn (APA-193).
    US Navy photo # NH 104301-KN (color) from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Collection of LCDR Howard W. Whalen, USNR. Donated by Mrs. Nadine Whalen, 1997.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Sanborn 69k Sanborn (APA-193) at anchor circa late 1944 early 1945. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 22. Original 35mm Kodachrome transparency, photographed by LT.Howard W. Whalen, USNR, Boat Group Commander, USS Sanborn (APA-193).
    US Navy photo # NH 104302-KN (color) from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Collection of LCDR Howard W. Whalen, USNR. Donated by Mrs. Nadine Whalen, 1997.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Sanborn 82k Sanborn (APA-193) underway, date and place unknown. Russ Padden
    Sanborn 138k Sanborn (APA-193) anchored, date and place unknown.
    Photo from Lanier (APA-125) cruise book, 1944-46    		 Russ Padden
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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
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