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Photo # NH 98730:  USS John Land in San Francisco Bay in late 1945 or early 1946

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USS John Land (AP-167), 1944-1946

USS John Land, a 7,440-ton La Salle-class transport built to the Maritime Commission's C2-S-B1 design, was completed at Oakland, California, in August 1943 as a freighter, converted to a troop transport at San Francisco, and acquired and commissioned by the Navy in April 1944. Departing the West Coast the same month, she took part during May in rehearsals at Pearl Harbor for the invasion of the Marianas. Arriving off Saipan on D-day there in June, she conducted a feint landing, then remained offshore landing her troops as reinforcements. At the end of June she transported casualties to Eniwetok, then returned to Saipan to load troops for the invasion of Tinian. There she conducted another D-day diversionary landing, then supported the main landing and evacuated casualties from Saipan to Eniwetok.

Remaining in the forefront of the Pacific campaign, John Land participated in landings at Peleliu in September 1944, Leyte in October, and Luzon in January 1945. After a period of upkeep at Ulithi in February, she arrived at Iwo Jima after the island was nearly secured and loaded troops and cargo, which she transported back to Pearl Harbor and San Francisco in April. After repairs, she arrived at Manila in July with additional troops and supplies, and was on her way to Pearl Harbor when the Japanese capitulated in August.

In September 1945 John Land transported occupation troops from Pearl Harbor to Japan, and then carried out five voyages under Operation "Magic Carpet," returning veterans from the Pacific theater of war to the West Coast. After the last of these she arrived in July 1946 at Seattle, where she was decommissioned in August and stricken from the Navy List in October. She entered merchant service in 1949 as Jeff Davis and was scrapped at Kaohsiung in 1969 under the name Norberto Capay.

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Photo #: NH 98730

USS John Land
(AP-167)

In San Francisco Bay, California, in late 1945 or 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: 83KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 83399

USS John Land
(AP-167)

In San Francisco Bay, California, circa 1945-1946.

Courtesy of D. M. McPherson, 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 525 pixels

 


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