USS Cleburne, a 4,247-ton Gilliam-class attack transport, was built at Wilmington, California, and was commissioned in December 1944. Between February and June the ship made two voyages to Hawaii to conduct training there and carry passengers and hospital patients back to California. In June she departed San Francisco for the western Pacific, where she shuttled troops between the central Pacific islands, the Philippines, and Korea. She returned to Portland, Oregon, in November 1945.
In December 1945 Cleburne sailed to carry troops to Shanghai and Tsingtao, China. She returned to San Francisco in February 1946 and then reported to Pearl Harbor in March to be stripped for use as a target in the atomic bomb tests at Bikini. Decommissioned in June, she survived the tests and was towed back to San Francisco and delivered to the Maritime Commission in July 1947. Placed in the reserve fleet, she was sold for scrapping in June 1965.
This page features our only view of USS Cleburne (APA-73).
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Page made 30 August 2003