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Photo # NH 98723:  USS Garrard in San Francisco Bay in late 1945 or early 1946

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USS Garrard (APA-84), 1945-1965

USS Garrard, a 4,247-ton Gilliam-class attack transport, was built at Wilmington, California, and was commissioned in March 1945. After shakedown training on the West Coast, Garrard departed Seattle in May with an Army Aviation Engineers unit, which she landed under Japanese air attack at Okinawa in late June. She then loaded replacement personnel, cargo, and mail at Leyte and delivered them by highline to units of the 3d Fleet, then operating off the Japanese coast. After serving briefly as a receiving ship at Eniwetok, she sailed a day before the Japanese surrender on another resupply mission to the 3d Fleet.

Upon rendezvousing with the 3d Fleet, Garrard embarked sailors and marines for occupation duty in Japan and delivered them to Yokosuka at the end of August. In September she steamed to Sendai, Japan, and back to transport liberated prisoners of war. In October she returned 726 veterans to Portland, Oregon. She then carried out one "Magic Carpet" voyage from San Francisco to the Philippines and back, returning in January 1946 with 905 more veterans. Garrard was decommissioned at Bellingham, Washington, and stricken from the Navy List in May 1946. She was placed in the Maritime Commission reserve fleet in June and was sold for scrapping in May 1965.

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Photo #: NH 72638

USS Garrard
(APA-84)

Photographed from USS Alabama (BB-60), probably while replenishing units of the 3d 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.

Courtesy of Donald. M. McPherson, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 98900

USS Garrard
(APA-84)

Photographed at anchor with troops on deck circa 1945-1946.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98723

USS Garrard
(APA-84)

In San Francisco Bay, California, probably in early 1946.
She is returning troops from the Western Pacific to the United States as part of Operation "Magic Carpet."

Donation of Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 


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Page made 22 October 2003
Picture caption corrected 21 August 2007