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Understanding Attack Transports in Naval History

This quiz tests knowledge on the classification and historical significance of Attack Transports in the United States Navy.

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1 APA/LPA -- Attack Transports by the US ________

2 Attack Transport is a ________ ship classification.

3 Some of these were outfitted with heavy boat davits and other arrangements to enable them to handle landing craft for ________ operations.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Arthur Middleton class attack transport USS George Clymer saw service in four major wars and earned a total of fifteen battle stars.
  • the World War II-era Crescent City class attack transports USS Crescent City and USS Calvert each received ten battle stars and a Navy Unit Commendation.
  • the Heywood class attack transport USS William P. Biddle rescued survivors from four US Navy troopships torpedoed during Operation Torch.
  • the Ormsby-class attack transports USS Ormsby and USS Sheridan earned six battle stars for WWII service apiece, and were both scrapped after accidents in 1969.
  • the Sumter-class attack transports USS Warren (APA-53) and USS Wayne (APA-54) collectively earned 11 battle stars for WWII service and were both converted postwar into container ships.
  • the WWII-era Windsor-class attack transport USS Queens (APA-103) was sunk as an artificial reef off Texas in 2007.
  • the US Navy's Haskell class attack transports Montrose, Renville, and Okanogan all saw action in three major wars – World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
  • the U.S. Navy's Harris-class attack transports Leonard Wood, Joseph T. Dickman and J. Franklin Bell were all named after U.S. Army generals.
  • the attack transport USS Bayfield (pictured) served as headquarters for planning the D-Day landings on "Utah Beach" in 1944.
  • the US Navy Bayfield class attack transports USS Alpine, USS Barnstable, USS Callaway, USS Cecil and USS Goshen all found use as cargo vessels after World War II but were scrapped at Kaohsiung in Taiwan in the 1970s.
  • the US Navy's Haskell class attack transports Bexar (pictured), Bottineau, Bollinger and Rockwall all participated in the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests in 1946.
  • the US Navy's Haskell class attack transports Meriwether (pictured), Tazewell, Natrona, Okaloosa, Oneida and Rawlins all participated in only one battle - the invasion of Okinawa in 1945 - before being collectively struck from the Naval Register on the same day in October 1958.
  • the 9,000 ton McCawley-class attack transport USS McCawley was accidentally sunk during the Solomons campaign in 1943 by friendly fire.
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