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- USS General W. H. Gordon (AP-117) was a troop transport that served with the United States Navy in World War II. After the war, she was transferred to the US Army and served as USAT General W. H. Gordon. In the mid to late 1940s she sailed in trans-Pacific American President Lines passenger service with sister ship SS General Meigs. With the outbreak of the Korean War, she was reacquired by the Navy as a civilian-manned Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) vessel, and redesignated USNS General W. H. Gordon (T-AP-117). She served again under the same designation in the Vietnam War. General W. H. Gordon was launched under Maritime Commission contract by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, New Jersey, 7 May 1944; and commissioned, after being acquired by the Navy, 29 June 1944. (en)
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- 10734 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
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- *29 Jun 1944 – 11 Mar 1946
*Mid-1946 – Nov 1951
*Nov 1951 – Oct 1955 (en)
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- *11,450 tons
*20,175 tons fully laden (en)
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- Scrapped 1987, Taiwan (en)
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- Four service stars for Korean War service and two for the Vietnam War (en)
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- *MC hull type P2-S2-R2,
*MC hull no. 675
* (en)
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- USS General W. H. Gordon (en)
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- Major General Walter Henry Gordon, United States Army (en)
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- Mrs Leslie J. McNair (en)
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- Three times: 1946, 1958 and March 1986 (en)
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- USS General W. H. Gordon (AP-117) was a troop transport that served with the United States Navy in World War II. After the war, she was transferred to the US Army and served as USAT General W. H. Gordon. In the mid to late 1940s she sailed in trans-Pacific American President Lines passenger service with sister ship SS General Meigs. With the outbreak of the Korean War, she was reacquired by the Navy as a civilian-manned Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) vessel, and redesignated USNS General W. H. Gordon (T-AP-117). She served again under the same designation in the Vietnam War. (en)
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- USS General W. H. Gordon (AP-117) (en)
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- USS General W. H. Gordon (en)
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