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USS Horace A. Bass (LPR-124)
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 USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124) (1944 - 1968)


International Radio Call Sign:
November - kilo - Zulu - Bravo
 NKZB
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (30 July 1945 - Okinawa) - Navy Unit Commendation
Second Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal (2)
Fourth Row - Korean Service Medal (6) - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)
Personal Awards

Purple Heart (16-WIA, 30 July 1945, Okinawa
Crosley Class High-speed Transport
  • Laid down, 3 August 1944, as (DE-691), a Rudderow Class Destroyer Escort at Bethlehem Steel Co. Quincy, MA.
  • Reclassified a Crosley Class High-speed Transport while under construction
  • Launched, 12 September 1944
  • Commissioned USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124), 21 December 1944, LCDR. F. W. Kuhn in command
  • During World War II USS Horace A. Bass was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto
    6 to 10 April, 25 April to 30 June 1945
    		Third Fleet operations against Japan
    10 July to 15 August 1945

  • During the Okinawa Gunto operation, Horace A. Bass sunk the Japanese submarine IJNS RO-109 south of Okinawa on 24 April 1945
  • Following WWII Horace A. Bass performed occupation duty in the Far East including China Service
  • During the Korean War USS Horace A. Bass participated in the following campaigns:
    Korean War Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    North Korean Aggression
    8 September to 2 November 1959     		UN Summer-Fall Offensive
    27 November 1951
    Communist China Aggression
    4 November 1950 to 23 January 1951     		Second Korean Winter
    28 November to 5 December 1951
    7 to 22 December 1951
    9 to 13 and 20 to 25 January 1952
    1 to 4 and 29 to 30 February 1952
    19 to 30 April 1952
    Inchon Landing
    13 to 16 September 1950     		Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952
    1 to 5 May 1952
    30 May to 13 June 1952
    10 to 25 June 1952

  • Decommissioned, 9 February 1959, at Orange, TX.
  • Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange.
  • Recommissioned, date unknown
  • Designation changed to Amphibious Transport, Small (LPR-124). 1 January 1969
  • Decommissioned, 30 July 1969
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 15 September 1974
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 11 August 1975, to J. R. Steel, Inc., Houston, TX. for $79,002
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,400 t.
    Length 306' ovl.
    Beam 37"
    Draft 12' 7" (limiting)
    Speed 23.6 kts. (trial)
    Range 6,000 nautical miles at 12 kts.
    Complement 12-15 Officers, 189-192 Enlisted
    Troop Accommodations 12 Officers, 150 Enlisted
    Boats 4 LCVP landing craft
    Troop Accoutrements
    six 1/4 ton trucks
    two 1 ton trucks
    four ammunition carts
    four pack howitzers
    Storage
    Ammunition 6,000 cu. ft.
    General Cargo 3,500 cu. ft.
    Gasoline 1,000 cu. ft.
    Armament
    one 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    three twin 40 mm gun mounts
    six single 20 mm gun mounts
    two depth charge tracks
    Propulsion 2 Combustion Engineering DR boilers, 2 GE Turbines, (turbo-electric drive), 2 shafts, Shaft horsepower 12,000
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    Horace A. Bass 22k USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
    Horace A. Bass 65k USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124) alongside the battleship IJNS Nagato, at Yokosuka, Japan in 1945. Robert Hurst
    Horace A Bass 42k USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124) underway, date and location unknown.
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    Horace A. Bass 188k Aft plan view of USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124) at Mare Island, 8 April 1946. She was in overhaul at the yard from 11 February to 10 April 1946. USS Lipan (ATF 85) is outboard while USS LSM-251 is inboard.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1436-46.    		 Darryl Baker
    Horace A. Bass 114k Forward plan view of USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124) at Mare Island, 8 April 1946. She was in overhaul at the yard from 11 February to 10 April 1946. USS Lipan (ATF 85) is outboard while USS LSM-251 is inboard.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1437-46.    		 Darryl Baker
    Delta 292k http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/25/2509.htm">USS Delta (AR-9) moored in the harbor at Sasebo, Japan in April 1955 while tending destroyers (inboard to outboard):
    USS McDermut (DD-677),
    USS Yarnell (DD-541),
    USS Tingey (DD-539),
    USS Boyd (DD-544), and
    USS Horace A. Bass (APD 124)    		 Mike Cary for his father James H. Cary SFCM USN Ret. USS Delta
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