USS Heywood, a 14,560-ton transport, was built in 1919 at Alameda, California, as the civilian freighter Steadfast. Extensively rebuilt in about 1930 and renamed City of Baltimore, she was employed as a passenger-cargo ship until October 1940, when the Navy acquired her. She was converted to a transport at Portland, Oregon, renamed Heywood (AP-12) and placed in commission in November 1940. Until June 1941, she operated in the Pacific, then transited the Panama Canal and participated in the occupation of Iceland that summer. Heywood served in the Atlantic and Caribbean through the remaining period of nominal peace and during the first four months of World War II.
In April 1942 Heywood retransited the Panama Canal for use transporting reinforcements to the south Pacific. She took part in the Allies' first major offensive against the Japanese, the invasion of Guadalcanal and Tulagi in early August and spent the rest of the year supporting the fight to hold Guadalcanal against enemy counter-attacks. The ship was reclassified as an attack transport in February 1943, receiving the new hull number APA-6. Following an overhaul, in April 1943 she went north to Alaskan waters, where she participated in the amphibious operation to seize Attu in May. Heywood left the north Pacific after Kiska was recovered in August and in November took part in the capture of Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands.
Heywood's next combat operation was the Marshall Islands invasion in January and February 1944. During June and July, she landed troops on Saipan and Tinian, in the Marianas. As U.S. forces returned to the Philippines, she participated in the invasions of Leyte in October 1944 and of Luzon, at Lingayen Gulf, in January 1945. Heywood carried reinforcements to Okinawa during the later part of the battle to capture that island and was preparing for the invasion of Japan when the Pacific War ended in August 1945. She then spent two months supporting occupation efforts before steaming back to the United States. USS Heywood was decommissioned at Boston, Massachusetts, in April 1946. Transferred to the Maritime Administration in July of that year, she later regained her old name, City of Baltimore, and survived until 1956, when she was scrapped.
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Photo #: 19-N-25919 USS Heywood (AP-12) Off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 1 November 1941. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 515 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-25920 USS Heywood (AP-12) Off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 1 November 1941. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 475 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-43228 USS Heywood (APA-6) Off San Pedro, California, circa April 1943. The original photograph was received by the Bureau of Ships with a Commander 11th Naval District letter of 26 April 1943. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 595 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-43227 USS Heywood (APA-6) Off San Pedro, California, circa April 1943. The original photograph was received by the Bureau of Ships with a Commander 11th Naval District letter of 26 April 1943. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-43229 USS Heywood (APA-6) Off San Pedro, California, circa April 1943. The original photograph was received by the Bureau of Ships with a Commander 11th Naval District letter of 26 April 1943. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 605 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-410707 USS Heywood (APA-6) Photographed by Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 13 May 1944. She is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 9t. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-325420 USS Heywood (APA-6) Off Mindoro, Philippine Islands, during the later stages of the campaign there, February 1945. She is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 9t. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-90745 USS Heywood (APA-6) Off San Francisco, California, 23 May 1945. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-90744 USS Heywood (APA-6) Off San Francisco, California, 23 May 1945. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 520 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-90746 USS Heywood (APA-6) Off San Francisco, California, 23 May 1945. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 500 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-90748 USS Heywood (APA-6) Off San Francisco, California, 23 May 1945. Among the ships in the distance are USS Arneb (AKA-56), at left, and USS Clearfield (APA-142), at right. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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