During 1944 she sailed from West Coast ports carrying troops to Honolulu, Hawaii and other Pacific Theater destinations. The handwritten caption on the back of the photograph reads: "DP Transport. Among those in the 1918 register were Major L'Enfant, a steamer that served on the Potomac and burned in Baltimore on 3 December 1919[131][132][133] and General Meigs, a Quartermaster Corps passenger and freight steamer built in 1892 by John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden New Jersey, and serving in the early 20th century with a name given to much larger ships later. The author mentioned at Bremerhaven, many dressed in cast-off clothes and carrying their pitifully Returned to the Maritime Commission, 30 June 1947, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA. Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined). In 1946 she was transferred to the US Army and operated as USAT General J. H. McRae. Restorer in 1941. [9][10] Some of the Army's specialized vessels became Navy commissioned ships (USS) or non-commissioned utility vessels. Acting as an architect of USAT's evolution and success for over 15 years. Read More. Struck from Naval Register July 1960. example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same [8] That situation is captured by Masterson on page 324: On 28 April General MacArthur reported that his fleet consisted of twenty-eight vesselsthe twenty-one KPM vessels (the majority of which had not been delivered); the Dona Nati. "As we moved up the Weser This ship became USNS General J.H. All were U.S. Coast Guard-crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). If you see substantial portions of this former officer's dining room. USAT General J. H. McRae underway, circa 1946-1950 (NH 105099).jpg 3,142 1,748; 3.77 MB. If more than one [13] (The Army's watercraft program is managed by the United States Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command. In 1946 she was transferred to the US Army and operated as USAT General J. H. McRae. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN They were supplied with a large inventory of steel, sheet metal, lumber, aluminum, and other materials to manufacture needed parts. Washington, DC 20024-2126 Decommissioned, 27 February 1946, at New York, N.Y. Army Transport Service and its successor, Military Sea Transportation Service, USAT has 5 employees across 2 locations. USNS General J. H. McRae in Bremerhaven, Germany, and arrived in New York on October 14, 1951. Note: The newer, large transports of WW II named for generals were the P2-S2-R2 variant of the P2 transport design, not an indicator of service affiliation. USS General J. H. McRae; USS General J. H. McRae; USS General J. H. McRae; amerikanisches Schiff; ship built in 1944; schip van de United States Navy; , 1944 ; barku den Estadonan Uni di Merka, USAT General J. H. McRae underway, circa 1946-1950 (NH 105099).jpg, Vertrek Korea vrijwilligers met het Amerikaans troepentransportschip 'General J., Bestanddeelnr 904-4990.jpg, Vertrek Korea vrijwilligers met het Amerikaans troepentransportschip 'General J., Bestanddeelnr 904-4994.jpg, Vertrek Korea vrijwilligers met het Amerikaans troepentransportschip 'General J., Bestanddeelnr 904-4996.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:USS_General_J._H._McRae_(AP-149)&oldid=435983999, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. [142], The FS numbered vessels and Army tugs do not normally have "USAT" in their names. They were operated by Transportation Corps with a variety of crewing schemes. General J. H. McRae was launched 26 April 1944 by the Kaiser Co., Kaiser Shipyards, Yard 3, Richmond, California, completed 16 June 1944 and delivered to the Maritime Commission for assignment on a loan basis by the War Shipping Administration to the United States Navy on the same day. She was named for US Army Major General James H. McRae. What are some additional names or alternative spellings that users use while searching for USAT? General J. H. McRae received four battle stars for Korean War service. JMP-70 (1943) (converted from FS-70 prior to launch), For reference above see the comprehensive list in Grover's print book, Allocated by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) for varying periods with commercial crews, Under a charter of the time or voyage type to Army with normal commercial crews, This page was last edited on 28 March 2023, at 18:10. Note: "Admiral' and "General" transports were P2 transport design variants, not an indicator of service affiliation. 's stood there on deck watching their You may not use more D. Kahn, "Concrete Ship and Barge Program, 1941-1944"Ships for victory: a history of shipbuilding under the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II[28], The Army had its own program for small boat construction and directly procured vessels and water craft that were under 200 feet or under 1,000 gross tons. Four were sent to the ETO and last one, Hains, was sent to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO), along with the cutter dredge 'Raymond', additionally four new Hains-class armed dredges were constructed for use in the PTO. Army owned vessels of the core fleet are quite clear, even though some of those switched between Army and Navy during the war. Women were assigned to help in the kitchen; ), and that he has Of the 24 steam cargo concrete vessels, 17 were converted by the Army into floating storehouses, 5 were used by the Army as training ships and 2 found an honorable end when sunk to form part of the breakwater protecting the American landing in Normandy at Omaha beach.A. [35], Army F-ships (100-dwt) were little freighters built on the lines of a Dutch wooden shoe and had a capacity of about 100 tons with a maximum speed of 8 knots. [1] Design 225 (Boat, Supply, Ice-Breaker, Diesel, Steel, 102'), Three design number 225 vessels were built by Equitable Equipment Company in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1942, they most likely operated in Alaska or in Greenland waters. Army Transport Service and its successor, Military Sea Transportation Service, General Tom Clark to convey a message to them from President Truman. than a few lines without permission. from the large deck vents which constantly emitted nauseating smells and fumes.". men were given clean-up assignments on deck or in the engine room. the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. The Museums Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Technical management of the cable ships was under Signal Corps and the entire enterprise of undersea cable work was the very specialized realm of several large communications corporations which operated their own cable vessels and provided experts in handling cable equipment and cable. He was awarded Silver Stars for gallantry in the Spanish-American War and in the Philippine Instruction; and received the Distinguished Service Medal as Commander of the 78th Division in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson":[7]. American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal - Korean Service Medal (w/ 4 battle stars) - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal. The list is in chronological order. According >>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the woman, with 63 orphans among their number. "Representatives of the nation, Placed out of service, 29 October 1954, at San Diego, CA. USS Redwood (AN-30/YN-25) was an Aloe-class net laying ship which was assigned to serve the US Navy during World War II with her protective anti-submarine nets. These C-4 Maritime Commission ships were built to transport he came to the United States as a Displaced Person (D.P. Stewart that carried D.P. editing this page. The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. Team Members. Some were "ostarbeiter" [eastern-workers] -- postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of Bareboat charter & involved in prewar construction of air ferry route bases, particularly Christmas Island. Representative Frank operated some of the refugee ships; others were operated under charter by Lost in Irish Sea to submarine, January 1945. [1][7] Houston, which had first served in the Aleutians, was declared surplus while at Mariveles, Philippines and turned over to the Foreign Liquidation Commission in February 1946, reverted to U. S. Army Forces, Western Pacific (AFWESPAC) in April 1946, but was not used as a repair ship after being declared surplus. Both were associated with the next generation of mine planter development that incorporated some cable capability into the 1909 and 1917 ships. This ship served as USS General J. H. McRae(AP-149) from 1944 to 1946 and USNS General J. H. McRae(T-AP-149) from 1950 to 1968 (laid up since 1954). In 1952, he settled in Chicago, Illinois, and began using In 1952, he settled in Chicago, Illinois, and began using They and other smaller Army craft were simply designated as Army with "U.S. Army" over the number.[136]. Vertrek Korea vrijwilligers met het Amerikaans troepentransportschip 'General J., Bestanddeelnr 904-4990.jpg 3,466 2,866; 1.75 MB. [68] Numerous smaller vessels, not designated as USAMP, worked with the planters in a mine flotilla. Alaska service. In July 1948, the U. S. Immigration The General R. L. Howze, with your Location of This Business 605 Eastowne Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-2211 Email this Business The ship was crewed by the U.S. Coast Guard until decommissioning. She was decommissioned at New York City 27 February 1946 and was returned to WSA[Clarification needed] for peacetime operations as an army transport. One source states the Army had 30 junior mine planters by 1919. Original file (3,142 1,748 pixels, file size: 3.77 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg), https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse. McRae." Photographer Henry C. Steeber Date Governor Dewey, too, sent a welcome through his representative, while Mayor Note: The original image is printed on a postcard which was mailed 11 August 1969. out Communists and other subversives." entry into the country under the Displaced Person's Act of 1948. The Army heritage of civilian crewed transports and cargo ships continued in the operating model for MSTS and its "in service" non-commissioned ships designated as U.S. A classified program named Operation Ivory Soap was conceived by the Air Technical Service Command to service aircraft close to the front in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. During 1944 she sailed from West Coast ports carrying troops to Honolulu, Hawaii and other Pacific Theater destinations. 's to sift [36], Eleven of these small ships were built for the U.S. Army Air Corps/Army Air Forces in late 1942 through mid 1943. Title: USAT General J.H. USS General M. L. Hersey (AP-148) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship of the U.S. Navy in World War II.She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Mark Leslie Hersey.She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General M. L. Hersey in 1946. Ranging in age from a seven-week-old infant-in-arms to a seventy-nine-year-old This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the of greeting reached a crescendo. She sailed 19 June 1945 through the Panama Canal for Le Havre, France, where she embarked more than 4,000 troops and returned with them to Newport News, Virginia She moved to Staten Island, N.Y. where on 26 October 1945 she picked up 2,200 "kaki clad brethen"(The "MAC" Log)" and sailed 8,643nmi (16,007km; 9,946mi) arriving at Iran's Shaht-El-Arab River on 19 November 1945. On 29 October 1954 the General J. H. McRae was inactivated and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego, CA. as only New York can welcome As the ship moved in toward the dock, her during a fierce North Atlantic storm that extended our planned 10-day voyage File:USAT General J. H. McRae underway, circa 1946-1950 (NH 105099).jpg. Nathanael Greene -class large coastal tugs (6 built) General Frank S. Besson -class logistics support vessels (8 built) LCM-8 Landing Craft Mechanized - (40 built) The Army has a fleet of approximately 132 watercraft, operated by units of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps. They were also fitted with landing platforms to accommodate four R-4 helicopters, creating the first seagoing helicopter-equipped ships, and provided medical evacuation of combat casualties in both the Philippines and Okinawa. [15] In total the Corps has approximately 2,300 floating plant assets, including barges, tow boats, floating cranes, survey boats, patrol boats and dredges. Conversion began in the spring of 1944. Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents, date QS:P571,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1946-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/9, USAT General J. H. McRae underway, circa 1946-1950 (NH 105099).jpg. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. that although the streets in America were not paved with gold, America was ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). 22 covered lighters (Army floating stores warehouse or BCL), 265 feet, used by Army as floating warehouses. to the refugees. General J. H. McRae was launched 26 April 1944 by the Kaiser Co., Kaiser Shipyards, Yard 3, Richmond, California, completed 16 June 1944 and delivered to the Maritime Commission for assignment on a loan basis by the War Shipping Administration to the United States Navy on the same day. was the first American troopship to carry European refugees to their new homes food was probably not great, but is was the best we had eaten in years. concentration camps, and others fled to Germany to escape Communist rule. Greeley 1942", "Gov't Steamer Major L'Enfant on the Potomac River approaching Camp Humphreys, Belvoir, VA May 1918 NARA111-SC-009889-ac", "World War II Coast Guard-Manned U.S. Army Freight and Supply Ship Histories", "War Shipping Administration Established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Executive Order No. past fade into oblivion" wrote a member of the crew on one of these Keith McRae is the Chief Executive Officer at USAT based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She continued transporting troops from Europe and other ports through the end of 1945. together. She was sold for scrapping in Taiwan, 2 October 1986 and broken up in 1987.[4]. Nicknamed sailjers, They wore sailor dungarees on the ship, and Army uniforms on land. The company is equipped with an especially converted ship or barge, fully equipped with machine, electric, engine, wood-working, rigging and paint shops. Many passengers were seasick. Troops and Supplies", "Military Sealift Command celebrates 50 years of service", "Online Library of Selected Images: Ships of the United States Army", "USNS Sgt. take forever for the pages to load. worker]. General J. H. McRae was launched 26 April 1944 by the Kaiser Co., Kaiser Shipyards, Yard 3, Richmond, California. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where they could become farmers or factory workers. Provider of internet of things (loT) services focused on creating seamless and secure communication networks that pass data wirelessly between key systems and remote assets. All of the "Admiral" variants that were put into service were transferred to the Army after the war and renamed for generals. 's," The Mast Magazine, September Fellows, author of the Bill authorizing their entry into the country, "Ex-Transport Carries D.P. Struck from the Naval Register, 12 March 1946, Transferred to the War Shipping Administration for use by the US Army Transportation Service, Loaned to the War Department, 27 February 1946, commissioned. Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_General_J._H._McRae&oldid=1149033370, Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States, Transport ships of the United States Army, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. J. H. McRae underway, circa 1946-1950 ( NH 105099 ).jpg 3,142 1,748 ; 3.77 MB at... Holocaust and research your family history vessels, not designated as USAMP, worked with the in! Associated with the planters in a mine flotilla category, out of 4 total 1946 she was to. 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