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APA / LPA-196 Logan

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2)
Second Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Third Row - Korean Service Medal (1) - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)
Haskell Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down, 27 May 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (VC2-S-AP5) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 664) at Kaiser Shipbuilding Corp, Vancouver, WA.
  • Launched, 19 September 1944
  • Acquired by the US Navy from the Maritime Commission on loan-charter
  • Commissioned USS Logan (APA-196), 14 October 1944, CDR. Joseph H. Foley in command
  • Decommissioned, 27 November 1946, at San Francisco, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Francisco, CA.
  • Recommissioned, 10 November 1951
  • Decommissioned, 14 June 1955
  • Laid up in the Reserve Fleet at San Francisco
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1960, and returned to the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Redesignated Amphibious Transport (LPA-196), 1 January 1969
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Nissho Iwai, Japan, 6 November 1979
  • Logan received two battle stars for World War II service and one for Korean War service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,873 t.(lt) 14,837 t.(fl)
    Length 455'
    Beam 62'
    Speed 19 kts.
    Complement 56 Officers 480 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 86 Officers 1,475 Enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150,000 cu. ft. or 2,900 tons
    Boats 2 LCM, 12 LCVP, 3 LCPU
    Armament one 5"/38 dual-purpose gun mount, five 40mm gun mounts, ten 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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    Logan 60k Logan (APA-196) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Martin Light in honor of his father Louis Light Y1/c USS Logan
    Logan 45k Logan (APA-196) at anchor, date and place unknown. Note her damaged bow, the result of a steering casualty and collision with Napa (APA-157) while off Iwo Jima in the early morning hours of 21 February 1944.
    US Navy photo    		 Martin Light in honor of his father Louis Light Y1/c USS Logan
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
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    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
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