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Photo # NH 98736:  USS Laurens in San Francisco Bay in late 1945 or early 1946

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USS Laurens (APA-153), 1944-1988

USS Laurens, one of 117 Haskell-class attack transports, was built to a modified Victory ship design at Portland, Oregon, and was commissioned in September 1944. After shakedown training on the West Coast, she sailed in October for the southwest Pacific. In mid-January 1945 Laurens landed troops off San Fabian during the Lingayen operation, then returned to New Guinea for more troops and brought them to Leyte. In late March the transport departed Leyte and landed her troops and cargo at Okinawa during the first six days of operations there in early April. Following repairs at Pearl Harbor and San Diego in May, she carried troops and cargo between islands in the central Pacific, and in mid-August returned a group of war veterans to San Francisco.

After the Japanese surrender, Laurens took occupation troops to Japan and returned veterans from the theater of war to the West Coast as part of Operation "Magic Carpet". The last of these voyages was completed at Portland, Oregon, in January 1946. Sailing for the East Coast a month later, USS Laurens was decommissioned at Norfolk, Virginia, and returned to the Maritime Commission in April. She was stricken from the Navy List and placed in the Maritime Commission's reserve fleet in May 1946. After more than four decades of inactivity she was sold for scrapping in 1988.

This page features our only view of USS Laurens (APA-153).


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Photo #: NH 98736

USS Laurens
(APA-153)

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.

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