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USS Guilford

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23: 38: 461: 401:, and Japan, she transported over 5,000 veterans back to the United States for discharge as well as carrying out troops for the occupation of Japan. Returning to San Diego on 6 March 1946 from her final Pacific voyage, 1570: 333:, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. She was laid down (date unknown) as a Maritime Commission type (C3-S-A2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 873) by the 528: 823: 341:; launched on 14 July 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Thomas Lowry Bailey, wife of the Governor of the State; converted to an attack transport by Waterman Steamship Corporation of 1560: 521: 856: 471: 1555: 1575: 514: 798: 440: 386: 476: 849: 537: 406: 330: 304: 124: 63: 417:
reached Norfolk on 31 March and decommissioned there on 29 May 1946. She returned to the Maritime Commission on 31 May 1946.
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from 1945 to 1946. She was sold into commercial service in 1947 and was scrapped in 1976.
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geared turbine, 2 combustion engineering "D"-type boilers, single
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World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
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Sold into merchant service, May 1947; scrapped, 1976
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Index


Guilford County, North Carolina
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Bayfield-class
attack transport
General Electric
propeller
knots
LCVPs
LCMs
LCPLs
5-inch/38-caliber guns
40 mm AA guns
20 mm AA guns
Bayfield-class
attack transport
United States Navy
Guilford County, North Carolina
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Mobile, Alabama
Gulf of Mexico
Newport, Rhode Island
Norfolk, Virginia
San Diego
Iwo Jima
Operation Magic Carpet
Guam
Saipan

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