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USS Garrard (APA-84)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Kilo - November - Yankee
NKNY

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Medal (with Asia Clasp)

Gilliam Class Attack Transport:

Laid down, 28 October 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (S4-SE2-BD1) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1877) at Consolidated Steel Corp, Wilmington, CA.

Launched, 13 January 1945

Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission, 2 March 1945

Commissioned USS Garrard (APA-84), 3 March 1945, at San Pedro, CA., LCDR. Walter Barnett, Jr., in command

During WWII USS Garrard was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater:
TransRon Twenty-Four, COMO. E. L. Short USNR;
TransDiv Seventy and participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 27 to 30 June 1945	3rd Fleet operations against Japan, 10 to 22 July and 13 to 15 August 1945

Following World War II USS Garrard was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 2 September to October 1945

Decommissioned, 21 May 1946, at Bellingham, WA.

Struck from the Naval Register, 30 May 1946

USS Garrard earned two battle stars for World War II service

Returned to the Maritime Commission, 1 April 1948, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA.

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 3 June 1965, in a two ship deal to Zidell Explorations Inc, Portland, OR. (PD-X-692) for $137,000.00 withdrawn from the Olympia Reserve Fleet, 3 June 1965, scrapping completed at Bellingham WA., 29 September 1965

Displacement 4,247 t.(lt), 7,080 t.(fl)
Length 426'
Beam 58'
Draft 16.9'
Speed 16.9 kts.

Complement

Officers 27

Enlisted 295

Troop Capacity

Officers 47

Enlisted 802

Cargo Capacity 85,000 cu. ft., 2,600 t.

Fuel Capacities

NSFO 9,695 Bbls

Diesel 375 Bbls

Armament

one single 5"/38 cal dual purpose gun mount

four twin 40mm AA radar-directed gun mounts

ten single 20mm AA gun mounts

Propulsion

two Westinghouse turbo-electric drive

two Babcock & Wilcox 450psi 750° boilers
Ship's Service Generators
one turbo-drive 250Kw 450V A.C.
one turbo-drive 150Kw 450V A.C.
one turbo-drive 100Kw 120V/240V D.C.

two propellers 6,000shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
	105k	*USS Garrard* (APA-84)** at anchor in Sagami Bay, Japan, 30 August 1945. Photo by LT Strang MC USNR, Garrard Medical Officer	Richard F. Appleton
	76k	*USS Garrard* (APA-84)** Officers, Ulithi, April 1945.	Tom McInteer
	89k	*USS Garrard* (APA-84)** Officers, Leyte, 6 July 1945.	Tom McInteer
	63k	*USS Garrard* (APA-84)** Boat Group, Philippines, 1945.	Tom McInteer
	63k	*USS Garrard* (APA-84)** Boat Group, date and location unknown.	Tom McInteer
	76k	Boat Group staff and cox'ns aboard *USS Garrard* (APA-84)** near Okinawa, 10 August 1945. Photo provided by CDR. David Rodney Rehmeyer, top left.	R. Potter
	96k	*USS Garrard* (APA-84)** Commanding Officer and staff of boat group following unopposed landing of U.S. Marines at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan. Photo provided by CDR David Rodney Rehmeyer (second from left, back row).	R. Potter
	119k	Starboard views of the *USS Garrard* (APA-84) with two LCVPs alongside and decks crowded with soldiers and crew in late-August, 1945, as seen from USS Ancon (AGC-4). Part of Task Force 31, Garrard** arrived at Tokyo Bay, 27 August 1945, and debarked her troops at Yokosuka on 30 August. Life Magazine Archives, John Florea Photographer, shared by Peter DeForest	Mike Green
	119k		Mike Green
100308411	104k	The battleship *USS Massachusetts* (BB-59) transfers personnel at sea to USS Garrard (APA-84) for occupation duty in Japan, between 17 and 20 August 1945. Photo 100308411 - US Navy photo from the USS Massachusetts (BB-59)** World War II cruise book Photo 100308414 - Vallejo Naval and History Museum.	Robert Hurst Darryl Baker
100308414	469k		Robert Hurst Darryl Baker
	75k	*USS Garrard* (APA-84) photographed from USS Alabama (BB-60)*, probably while replenishing units of the Third Fleet off Japan in July or August 1945. Note the fenders rigged to port and the mast and director of the destroyer steaming alongside to starboard. US Navy photo # NH 72638* Courtesy Donald. M. McPherson, 1970, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	111k	*USS Garrard* (APA-84)** at anchor with troops on deck circa 1945-1946. US Navy photo # NH 98900 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	73k	*USS Garrard* (APA-84)** in San Francisco Bay, CA., probably in early 1946 returning troops from the Western Pacific to the United States as part of Operation "Magic Carpet." US Navy photo # NH 98723 donated to the US Naval Historical Center by Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003.	US Naval Historical Center

USS Garrard (APA-84)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	LCDR. Barnett Jr., Walter, USNR	3 March 1945 - 2 April 1946
02	CDR. Stein, Otto John, USNR	2 April 1946 - 21 May 1946


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