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Photo # NH 98734:  USS Kingsbury in San Francisco Bay in late 1945 or early 1946

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Kingsbury (APA-177), 1944-1983

USS Kingsbury, one of 117 Haskell-class attack transports, was built to a modified Victory ship design at Portland, Oregon, and was commissioned in December 1944. After shakedown training, she departed the West Coast in February 1945, arrived off Iwo Jima in mid-March, and transported Marines who had fought there back to Pearl Harbor via Guam and Eniwetok. Moving to Seattle, Washington, Kingsbury embarked a new contingent of Marines and delivered them to Iwo Jima in July. She then took personnel back to Pearl Harbor.

After the Japanese surrender, Kingsbury transported occupation Marine troops from Pearl Harbor to Sasebo, Japan, in September 1945. After a round trip between Japan and the Philippines with additional occupation troops, she carried out two voyages under Operation "Magic Carpet," returning veterans from the Philippines to the West Coast in November 1945 and January 1946. She then moved to the East Coast, arriving at Norfolk in March. USS Kingsbury was decommissioned and returned to the Maritime Commission in April, stricken from the Navy List in May 1946, and placed in the Maritime Commission's James River, Virginia, reserve fleet. She was sold for scrapping in 1983.

This page features our only view of USS Kingsbury (APA-177).


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Photo #: NH 98734

USS Kingsbury
(APA-177)

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: 85KB; 740 x 550 pixels

 


In addition to the image presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Kingsbury (APA-177). The following list features one of these images:

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



  • Photo #: 80-G-303193
    Port aerial oblique view of USS Kingsbury (APA-177) underway on 23 December 1944, photographed a blimp of squadron ZP-33.

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

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


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


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