USS General William Mitchell (AP-114)
USS General William Mitchell (AP-114) embarking units of the 1st Marine Division at Pavuvu, Russell Islands, November 1944
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| Name: | USS General William Mitchell |
| Namesake: | General William "Billy" Mitchell (1879–1936), proponent of an independent air force |
| Builder: | Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock |
| Launched: | 31 October 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs William Mitchell, widow of General Mitchell |
| Acquired: | 15 January 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 19 January 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 1966 |
| Reclassified: | AP-114 |
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| Honors and awards: |
Four service stars for the Korean War |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Taiwan, 1988 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | General John Pope-class transport |
| Type: | troopship |
| Displacement: | 11,450 tons (lt) |
| Tons burthen: | 20,175 tons fully laden |
| Length: | 622 feet 7 inches (189.76 m) |
| Beam: | 75 feet 6 inches (23.01 m) |
| Draft: | 25 feet 6 inches (7.77 m) |
| Installed power: | 17,000 shp |
| Propulsion: | 2 steam turbines, reduction gearing, twin screw |
| Speed: | 20.6 knots (38.2 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 5,289 |
| Complement: | 452 |
| Armament: | 4 x single 5"/38 caliber dual purpose guns, 4 x quad 1.1" guns, 20 x single 20mm guns |
USS General William Mitchell (AP-114) was a troopship that served with the United States Navy in World War II and the Korean War.
General William Mitchell was launched 31 October 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Company of Kearny, New Jersey; acquired 15 January 1944 and commissioned 4 days later, Captain Henry Coyle, USCG, in command.
From 3 March to 20 August 1944 General William Mitchell made five round trip transport voyages out of Norfolk, Virginia and New York to Casablanca and Liverpool, carrying fighting men to the North African Theater and participating in the buildup prior to the Allied invasion of Northern France. On the return leg of these frequent voyages, she carried casualties and rotation troops home to the United States, ensuring a steady flow of men and equipment between America and war-torn Europe.
During the autumn of 1944 and through the spring of 1945, General William Mitchell called twice at Bombay, India, as she redeployed and rotated troops in the China-Burma-India theater. On the first of these voyages she sailed from New York via Panama and Australia, putting in at Bombay 7 October and embarking veterans for passage to Australia and America, and finally mooring at San Diego, California 17 November 1944. Her second passage to India took her from San Pedro via Tasmania to embark Allied troops and Italian prisoners of war at Bombay; she subsequently off-loaded the POW's at Melbourne; loaded dependent wives and children in New Zealand and returned to San Pedro 3 March 1945.
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