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USS Granville (APA-171), 1944-1973
USS Granville, a 12,450-ton Haskell class attack transport built at Portland, Oregon, was commissioned in November 1944. She carried passengers to the central Pacific during the first few months of 1945 and, in April and May, transported Soldiers to Okinawa. Having completing that mission, she brought casualties back to the U.S. from the western Pacific combat zone and made another trip to Okinawa before Japan agreed to surrender in mid-August. For the next two months Granville supported the occupation of Japan. She was employed on Operation "Magic Carpet", the great effort to return service personnel from the Pacific to the U.S., from October 1945 until January 1946. After steaming to the East Coast by way of the Panama Canal, USS Granville was decommissioned in May 1946 and transferred to the U.S. Maritime Commission. She spent the better part of three decades laid up in the James River, Virginia, as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, and was sold for scrapping in 1973.
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