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USS Monitor (MCS-5)
ex
 USS Monitor (LSV-5) (1944 - 1956)
 USS Monitor (AP-160) (1944 - 1956)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Victor - Uniform
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Acton Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (4) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippine Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (2)
Osage Class Landing Ship Vehicle:
  • Laid down as Net Layer (AN-1), 21 October 1941 at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, MS.
  • Launched, 29 January 1943
  • Reclassified Transport (AP-160), 2 August 1943
  • Placed in partial Commission, 18 March 1944 for transit to her conversion yard at Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Decommissioned, 2 April 1944, at Todd Shipyards, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Redesignated a Osage Class Landing Ship Vehicle, 21 April 1944, while at Todd Shipyards, Brooklyn
  • Recommissioned USS Monitor (LSV-5), 14 June 1944, CDR. J. B. McVey in command
  • During World War II USS Monitor was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Leyte operation
    Leyte landings, 20 October and 14 November 1944     		Manila Bay-Bicol operation
    Grande Island landing, 30 January 1945
    Luzon operation
    Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 January 1945
    San Felipe and La Paz landings, 29 January 1945     		Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 April to 10 May 1945

  • Decommissioned, 22 May 1947, at Galveston, TX.
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX.
  • Reclassified an Osage Class Mine Countermeasures Support Ship (MCS-5), 18 October 1956
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1961
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • USS Monitor earned four battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 4,626 t(lt)
    Length 458'
    Beam 60' 2"
    Draft 20'
    Speed 21 kts.
    Complement 458
    Troop Capacity 122 Officers, 1236 Enlisted
    Boats 19 LVT or 29 DUKW
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 duel purpose gun mounts, forward
    one twin 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, aft
    four twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    twenty single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion four Combustion Engineering 2-drum boilers, 2 General Electric Geared turbines, two shafts
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    USS Monitor (AP-160)
    Monitor 79k USS Monitor (AP-160) underway, circa 18 March to 2 April 1944.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-222655 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Lawrence W. Lee Jr.
    USS Monitor (LSV-5)
    Monitor 67k The newly completed USS Monitors (LSV-5) at the New York Navy Yard, 14 June 1944. The ex-netlayers could be distinguished from the ex-minelayers by their cut-off bows (presumably adopted to handle nets), single funnels, and twin 5"/38 mount aft (instead of two singles in the ex-minelayers). The stern has a hard knuckle, rather than the curve of the ex-minelayers. Her camouflage is Measure 31 Design 15L.
    Text from "U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History" by Norman Friedman.    		 Robert Hurt and Tony Adamski USS Monitor
    Monitor 23k USS Monitors (LSV-5), date and location unknown. Her camouflage is Measure 31 Design 15L. Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
    Monitor 159k USS Monitors (LSV-5), date and location unknown. Tony Adamski, USS Monitor
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