USS Windsor, a 13,143-ton attack transport, was built at Sparrows Point, Maryland. Originally begun as the merchant freighter Excelsior, she was taken over by the Navy while under construction and launched under the hull number AP-100, which was changed to APA-55 by the time she was commissioned in June 1943. After shakedown, the ship went to the Pacific, where she took part in the Marshalls operation in January-February 1944. During the rest of the year she participated in landings on the northern shore of New Guinea in April and May, at Guam in July, Peleliu in September and Leyte in October.
Windsor was overhauled on the U.S. west coast during late 1944 and early 1945. For the rest of World War II, she transported men and materiel between the United States and the central and western Pacific. After the fighting ended in August, she supported the occupation of Japan and took part in Operation "Magic Carpet", the effort to bring U.S. service personnel home from the former war zone. This duty was completed by early January 1946, and Windsor was sent to the east coast where she decommissioned in March. She was turned over to the War Shipping Administration in August 1946 and subsequently had a long career as a merchantman under the names Paul Revere (from 1947) and Expeditor (from 1949). She was scrapped in Taiwan in 1972.
This page features our only view of USS Windsor (APA-55).
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Photo #: NH 97870 USS Windsor (APA-55) Underway in harbor, circa 1943. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 515 pixels |
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In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Windsor (APA-55). 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."
USS Windsor (APA-55) underway in the Hampton Roads area, 27 June 1943. Photographed from a Naval Air Station Norfolk aircraft. Starboard broadside aerial view. As 80-G-71412, but taken from off the ship's port side, aft, and looking down on the ship from a higher angle. As 80-G-71412, but taken from directly off the ship's stern, looking down on the ship from a relatively high angle. USS Windsor (APA-55) on 28 June 1943, apparently at anchor. Port broadside aerial view.
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." |
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Page made 15 February 2002