USS Baxter (APA-94)
USS Baxter at anchor, date and location unknown.
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| Name: | USS Baxter (APA-94) |
| Namesake: | Baxter County, Arkansas |
| Builder: | Gulf Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 18 March 1943 |
| Launched: | 19 September 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs R. S. Hendry |
| Acquired: | 30 November 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 15 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 22 March 1946 |
| Struck: | 17 April 1946 |
| Honours and awards: |
Four battle stars for World War II service |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1968 |
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| Class and type: | Sumter-class attack transport |
| Displacement: | 8591 tons (lt?), 13,910 tons (fl) |
| Length: | 468 ft 8 in |
| Beam: | 63 ft |
| Draft: | 23 ft 3 in (limiting) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × General Electric geared drive turbine, 2 Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers, 1 propeller, designed shaft horsepower 6,000 |
| Speed: | 16.5 knots |
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| Complement: | Officers 56, Enlisted 498 |
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| Notes: | MCV Hull No. 483, hull type C2-S-E1 |
USS Baxter (APA-94) was a Sumter-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II.
Baxter (APA-94) was launched 19 September 1943 by Gulf Shipbuilding at Chickasaw, Alabama, as Antinous under a Maritime Commission contract, transferred to the Navy 30 November 1943; placed in reduced commission the same day, sailed to New York and placed out of commission for conversion at Atlantic Basin Iron Works, Brooklyn, New York, recommissioned 15 May 1944, Captain V. R. Sinclair in command; and reported to the Pacific Fleet.
Between 11 July and 7 August 1944 Baxter made three voyages between the west coast and Pearl Harbor transporting troops and cargo.
In August she commenced training exercises in the Hawaiian Islands in preparation for the first assaults against the Philippines. Between 20 October and 18 November 1944 she participated in the Leyte operation, landing several hundred troops.
Baxter got underway from Manus, Admiralty Islands 31 December 1944 with troops and cargo and again steamed toward the Philippines. On 9 January 1945 she unloaded her troops and equipment in the initial assault against the beaches of Lingayen Gulf, Luzon. She departed the same day and proceeded to Leyte Gulf. On 29 January she took part in the landings at San Felipe, Luzon, and left for Leyte the same day.
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