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Lost to enemy action, 4 or 5 May 1942
USAMP Col. George F.E. Harrison
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - Philippines Defense Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Mine Planter:
Built in 1919-20 for the US Army Quartermaster Department by Fabricated Shipbuilding Co. Milwaukee, WI.
Launched in 1920
Named in honor of Col. George Francis Edward Harrison, the first American military governor of the Philippines and commandant of the Coast Artillery School 1906–09
Assigned to the Panama Coast Artillery District, 4 May 1920
Accepted for service by the Quartermaster Corps, 31 October 1920, commissioned USAMP Colonel George F. E. Harrison, Maj. Belton O. Kennedy, USA in command
Departed Milwaukee, 2 November 1920 and arrived at the Army Supply Base, Brooklyn, N.Y., 16 December 1920
Stationed at the Army Supply Base, Brooklyn, until October 1921
Departed the Army Supply Base, Brooklyn, 19 October 1921, en route to Fort Sherman, Canal Zone, via Charleston, S.C., and Cienfuegos, Cuba
Arrived at Fort Sherman, 7 November 1921
Relieved from the Coast Defenses of Balboa, 9 August 1922
Ordered to the Philippines to replace USAMP Col. Henry J. Hunt and USAMP Gen. Henry Knox in the Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bay
Departed Fort Sherman, 24 September 1922 en route for Fort Mason, CA.
Arrived at Fort Mason, 29 October 1922
Departed Fort Mason, 12 February 1923 en route to Manila, P.I., via Pearl Harbor, T.H.
Arrived at Manila, 11 March 1923 and assigned to the Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bay
Personnel assigned to the Harrison were concurrently assigned to the 59th Coast Artillery, 30 June 1924
Personnel were relieved from the 59th Coast Artillery, 31 August 1927
Transferred, 21 November 1935, to Fort Mills, P.I., typically docked at the ATS Dock in Manila and later at the North Dock at Fort Mills on Corregidor
Planted the Manila Bay harbor entrance/exit minefields in July-August 1941
Responsible for maintaining the harbor entrance/exit minefields in the North Channel (the US Navy was responsible for the South Channel)
Partially sunk in the South Bay of Manila Bay, 4 or 5 May 1942 by Japanese dive bombers
USAMP Col. George F. E. Harrison earned one battle star for participation in the Philippine Islands Operation
Subsequently raised by the Japanese and rated as the Auxiliary Cable Ship Harushima Maru
In July 1943 she was commissioned into the Japanese Imperial Navy cabek ship IJN Harushima
Final Disposition, sunk by US Navy aircraft in Yokosuka harbor in July 1945
Specifications:
Displacement 704 t. gross
Length 172'
Beam 32'
Draft 17'
Speed 11 kts
Armament
two .50 cal Machine guns
four .30 cal BARs
Complement
Propulsion
two Allis Chalmers compound, inverted, reciprocating steam engines
two Page & Burton water tube boilers
two shafts, 1,000 SHP
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George F.E. Harrison (24 October 1906 - 14 January 1909) - Colonel, Coast Artillery Corps
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USAMP Col. George F.E. Harrison moored pierside at Ilollo, Panay, Philippine Islands, 2 February 1933.
U.S. Army Signal Corps photo # 331549, U.S. National Archives 111-SCA-Album-2986.
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IJN Harushima moored pierside, date and location unknown.
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The history for USAMP Col. George F.E. Harrison is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol. 2
Commanding Officers
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| 01 | Maj. Belton O. Kennedy, USA | 31 October 1920 - November 1920 |
| 02 | Lt. Col. Harrison F. Kerrick, USA | November 1920 – 4 December 1920 |
| 03 | 1st Lt. Phillip S. Day, USA | 4 December 1920 – 17 December 1920 |
| 04 | Maj. Logan W. Serles, USA | 17 December 1920 – 2 June 1921 |
| 05 | 1st. Lt. Frederick R. Chamberlain, USA | 2 June 1921 – 30 April 1923 |
| 06 | 2d Lt. John L. Goff, USA | 30 April 1923 – 1 August 1923 |
| 07 | 2d Lt. John D. Mitchell, USA | 1 August 1923 – 18 October 1923 |
| 08 | Capt. Carl S. Doney, USA | 18 October 1923 – 23 March 1925 |
| 09 | 2d Lt. Lee A. Denson Jr., USA | 23 March 1925 – 2 October 1925 |
| 10 | 1st Lt. Joe D. Moss, USA | 2 October 1925 – 4 November 1925 |
| 11 | 2d Lt. Samuel Rubin, USA | 4 November 1925 – 22 May 1926 |
| 12 | 2d Lt. Clark C. Witman, USA | 22 May 1926 – 12 September 1927 |
| 13 | Unknown | 12 September 1927 – February 1928 |
| 14 | 2d Lt. Glenn Newman, USA | February 1928 – June 1928 |
| 15 | 1st Lt. Victor Schmidt, USA | June 1928 – October 1928 |
| 16 | 1st Lt. William S. Griffin, USA | October 1928–14 - June 1929 |
| 17 | 1st Lt. Joseph Harris, USA | 15 June 1929 – March 1930 |
| 18 | 1st Lt. Samuel Rubin, USA | April 1930 – May 1932 |
| 19 | Maj. Henry E. Behrens, USA | June 1932 – October 1932 |
| 20 | 2d Lt. Peter Schmick, USA | October 1932 – May 1934 |
| 21 | Capt. Samuel Rubin, USA | March 1935 – 1 February 1937 |
| 22 | Capt. Russell E. Bates, USA | 1 February 1937 – 11 June 1937 |
| 23 | 1st Lt. Peter S. Peca, USA | 11 June 1937 – 20 May 1938 |
| 24 | 1st Lt. Harry J. Harrison, USA | 20 May 1938 – 1 April 1940 |
| 25 | 1st Lt. John McM. Gulick, USA | 2 April 1940 – November 1941 |
| 26 | Capt. Edgar Rosenstock, USA | November 1941 – 1 May 1942 |
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