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LST-489 / ARL-2 Amycus

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippine Liberation Medal (2)
Achelous Class Landing Craft Repair Ship:
  • Laid down as LST-489 at Kaiser Co., Richmond, CA.
  • Reclassified Landing Craft Repair Ship, ARL-2, 13 January 1943, while building
  • Launched, 2 April 1943
  • Completed at Matson Navigation Co., San Francisco, CA.
  • Commissioned USS Amycus (ARL-2), 30 July 1943, LT. John J. Reidy, Jr., in command
  • Decommissioned, 15 November 1946, at San Francisco CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
  • Amycus received two battle stars for her service in the Pacific
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,220t. (lt.) 4,100t. (fl.)
    Length 328'
    Beam 50'
    Speed 11.6 Kts.
    Complement 255
    Armament
    2 quad 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    2 twin 40mm AA gun mounts w/Mk. 51 directors
    6 twin 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion two General Motors 12-567 Diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
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    Amycus 157k Amycus (ARL-2) (aft plan view) moored pierside at San Francisco, 8 August 1943.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 5780-43, 8/8/43.    		 Darryl Baker
    Amycus 101k Amycus (ARL-2) (broadside view) off San Francisco, 10 August 1943.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 5803-43, 8/10/43.    		 Darryl Baker
    Adonis 34k The bow of Amycus (ARL-2) is just visible at the far left of this photo of Adonis (ARL-4) anchored at Shanghai, China, 4 February 1945. Vicki Bruzas for her father Rinaldo A. Rossi, S1/c USNR USS Adonis
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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