Attack Transport APA Lamar APA-47 (original) (raw)
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76k | USS Lamar (APA-47) underway, date and location unknown_US Navy photo_ | George W. Jones |
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179k | USS Lamar (APA-47) underway, date and location unknown_US Navy photo_ | George W. Jones |
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71k | USS Lamar (APA-47) underway while a part of the Guam amphibious invasion force, July 1944. Photo taken from USS Ringgold (DD-500), Dwight Spayth collection. | John Chiquoine |
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61k | USS Lamar (APA-47) underway, date and location unknown_US Navy photo_ | George W. Jones |
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278k | Ex-USS Lamar (APA-47) moored pierside at Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, MD. undergoing conversion for merchant service. | Jason Longo |
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355k | Ex-USS Lamar (APA-47) in merchant service in Luckenbach Line colors as SS J. L. Luckenbach underway, circa 1950s, location unknown | Gerhard Muller-Debus. Courtesy ©William Schell. |
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447k | Ex-USS Lamar (APA-47) in merchant service in States Marine Lines colors as SS Evergreen State berthed apparently at Naval Station Subic Bay, P.I. in the late 1960s. | Gerhard Muller-Debus. Courtesy ©William Schell. |
USS Lamar (APA-47)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
| Commanding Officers | ||
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| LCDR. Budd, James Hodgeson USNR (Ferry Command) | 10 November 1943 - 22 November 1943 | |
| Decommissioned | 22 November 1943 - 6 April 1944 | |
| 01 | CAPT. Culver, Burnett Kent, USN (USNA 1921-B) | 6 April 1944 - 1 May 1945 |
| 02 | CAPT. Rockwell, Joseph Perkins, USN (USNA 1921-B) | 1 May 1945 - 1 December 1945 |
| 03 | LCDR. Hughes, George N. USNR | 1 December 1945 - 29 December 1945 |
| 04 | CAPT. Hurd, Kenneth Charles, USN (USNA 1925) :RADM | 29 December 1945 - 7 March 1946 |
| Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves |
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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