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AN-1 / AP-160 / LSV-5 / MCS-5 Monitor

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Victor - Uniform NEVU

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 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

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

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Monitor (AP-160)
	79k	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)
	67k	Photo taken approximately June 1944 about the time of *Monitor's recommissioning as (LSV-5)* at New York. Her camouflage is Measure 31 Design 15L.	Tony Adamski, USS Monitor
	23k	Monitors (LSV-5), date and location unknown. Her camouflage is Measure 31 Design 15L.<	Hyperwar US Navy in World War II
	159k	Monitors (LSV-5), date and location unknown.	Tony Adamski, USS Monitor

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DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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Fleet Reserve Association

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Last Updated 18 January 2008