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USAT Thomas H. Barry
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Thomas H. Barry (AP-45)

Assigned to AP-45 1942 International Radio Call Sign:
Nan - Baker - Zebra - George NBZG

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal (with "A" device)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Transport:

Laid down, date unknown, as SS Oriente for the Ward Line at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News

Launched, 15 May 1930

Completed, 21 November 1930 for Ward Line service between New York and Havana, Cuba.

Purchased by the US War Department, 14 June 1941, at New York for use as an Army Transport

Designated (AP-45) by the US Navy but never taken over by the Navy remaining under Army control throughout World War II

Declared surplus to US Army needs and laid up, 24 January 1950, in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group. Lee Hall, VA.

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 4 November 1957, to Bethlehem Steel

Specifications:
Displacement 11,250 t.
Length 508'
Beam 70' 9"
Draft 27' 3"
Speed 18 kts.
Troop Capacity 3,609
Armament

two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts

four single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts

eight .50 cal. machine guns

Propulsion two steam turbines, twin shafts

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Merchant Service
092204508	229k	Ward Lines passenger liner SS Oriente outbound from New York enroute to Havana, Cuba, circa November 1930-June 1941.	Charlie Tooley for Kenneth Tooley (USAT Thomas H. Barry, July 43-Mar45)
092204509	322k	Ward Lines passenger liner SS Oriente outbound from New York enroute to Havana, Cuba, circa November 1930-June 1941.	Charlie Tooley, for Kenneth Tooley (USAT Thomas H. Barry, July 43-Mar45)
USAT Thomas H. Barry
	129k	*Namesake* Major General Thomas H. Barry graduated from West Point in 1877. He participated in the Indian Wars in the Dakotas and Montana as a Second Lieutenant in the Seventh Cavalry. He advanced through the ranks at a brisk pace for the time period. In 1893 he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General of the Army by Secretary Lamont. He During the Spanish American War he served in the Philippines. Brigadier-General Thomas H Barry of the United States Army was a participant in the Cuban Pacification in the year of 1908. The Army of Cuban Pacification Medal NO. 1 was presented to Major General Thomas H. Barry on June 1, 1909. In 1910 he was appointed the Superintendent of West Point. Major General Thomas H. Barry was the commanding general of the 86th Infantry Division of the United States Army in World War I. He retired from the Army on Oct. 13, 1918. On December 30, 1919 Major General Thomas H. Barry died at Walter Reed General Army Hospital having been ill for three weeks suffering form Bright’s disease. He was interned in New York with full military honors. Digital ID: ggbain 02662 Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division	Bill Gonyo
	230k	USAT Thomas H. Barry under way, date and location unknown. formerly SS Oriente, (sister ship of the ill-fated SS Morro Castle, which was destroyed by fire off Asbury Park, N. J., 8 September 1930).	Robert Hurst
	80k	USAT Thomas H. Barry getting underway with the assistance of tugs, date and location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
	98k	USAT Thomas H Barry moored astern of USAT Henry Gibbins, at the Brooklyn, N.Y., Army Base, in August 1941. US National Archives RG-111, photo # SC 126006 a US Army Signal Corps photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.	Mike Green
	121k	USAT Thomas H. Barry in 1941 in peacetime paint with neutrality markings and without armament. She was scheduled to be manned and acquired by the Navy and the hull designation AP-45 was reserved for her. US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # NH 85266, courtesy Shipscribe.com.	Robert Hurst
	104k	USAT Thomas H. Barry at Noumea, New Caledonia, 12 March 1942. Her two 5"/51 guns are probably mounted side by side on the stern. The Navy formally abandoned its plan to acquire this ship at the end of March 1942. Photographed by *USS Tangier* (AV-8)** US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # No. 19-N-25782, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command, courtesy Shipscribe.com.	Robert Hurst
	120k	USAT Thomas H. Barry between 1946 and 1950 during her postwar service as a transport for Army dependents. Photo courtesy Shipscribe.com.	William J Quince - Fireman USAT Barry - (26 Oct 1949 to 17 Nov 1949) and Robert Hurst