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Photo # NH 98722:  USS Gallatin in San Francisco Bay in late 1945 or early 1946

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Gallatin (APA-169), 1944-1983

USS Gallatin, one of 117 attack transports of the 6,873-ton Haskell-class, was built to a modified Victory ship design at Portland, Oregon, and was commissioned in November 1944. After shakedown training at San Pedro, California, Gallatin departed the West Coast in January 1945 with over 1,000 troops and cargo. Although she missed the assault on Okinawa, she carried passengers and military cargo throughout the Pacific in the months before the Japanese surrender. She returned to San Francisco in early August with nearly 1,500 veterans from the Philippines.

Following the Japanese surrender, Gallatin departed San Francisco in August with garrison troops for the Philippines. She then transported Army troops from the Philippines to Japan for occupation duty. Two "Magic Carpet" voyages followed, returning troops from the Philippines and Hawaii to San Diego in November 1945 and January 1946. She then sailed for Newport News on the East Coast, where she was decommissioned. Returned to the Maritime Commission in April 1946 and stricken from the Navy List in May, she was in the reserve fleet until sold for scrapping in September 1983.

This page features our only view of USS Gallatin (APA-169).


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Photo #: NH 98722

USS Gallatin
(APA-169)

In San Francisco Bay, California, in late 1945 or early 1946.

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

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 


In addition to the image presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Gallatin (APA-169). The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-290539
    Starboard broadside surface view of USS Gallatin (APA-169), photographed by the Astoria Naval Air Station on 25 November 1944. She is wearing a pattern camouflage scheme (possibly Measure 32, Design 6A.

  • Photo #: 80-G-291302
    Starboard bow aerial view of USS Gallatin (APA-169), photographed by an aircraft of ZP-33 on 26 November 1944. The camouflage pattern (Measure 32, Design 4T) differs from the one in the photo above, dated a day earlier, suggesting an error in the original captioning or printing of one of the photographs.

    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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