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APA-209 Tazewell

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Haskell Class Attack Transport:
  • Laid down, 2 June 1944, as a Maritime Commission (VC-2-S-AP5) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull MC 557) at Permanente Metals Corp.Yard Number 2, Richmond, CA.
  • Launched, 22 August 1944
  • Acquired by the US Navy from the Maritime Commission on loan-charter and commissioned USS Tazewell (APA-209), 25 October 1944, CDR. H. S. Olsen, USNR, in command
  • During World War II Tazewell was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:
  • Decommissioned, 27 December 1946
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
  • Returned to the Maritime Administration, 1 October 1958, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 October 1958
  • Final Disposition, sold, 11 December 1972, by the Maritime Administration to Zidell Exploration Inc, Portland OR. for scrapping
  • Tazewell received one battle star 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 Accommodations 86 Officers 1,475 Enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150,000 cu. ft, 2,900 tons
    Boats
    two LCMs
    twelve LCVPs
    three LCPUs
    Armament
    one single 5"/38 dual-purpose gun mount
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    ten single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion
    one Joshua Hendy geared turbine
    two Babcock and Wilcox header-type boilers
    single propeller
    design shaft horsepower 8,500
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    Tazewell 54k Tazewell (APA-209) at anchor, date and location unknown.
    Photo from Lanier (APA-125) cruise book, 1944-46.    		 Russ Padden
    Tazewell 59k Tazewell (APA-209) in San Francisco Bay, in late 1945 or early 1946. She is returning troops from the Western Pacific to the United States as part of Operation "Magic Carpet."
    US Navy photo # NH 98749 donated by Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003, to the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Tazewell 61k Tazewell (APA-209) moored pierside, circa 1945-46, place unknown.
    US Navy photo # NH 83289 courtesy of D. M. McPherson, 1975.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Tazewell 65k Tazewell (APA-209) arriving at San Francisco bring US veterans home from the Pacific war during the "Magic Carpet" operation, circa late-1945-1946. Russ Padden
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
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