USS Dutchess (APA-98) was a Windsor-classattack transport that served with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was subsequently sold into commercial service and was scrapped in 1974.
She reached Pearl Harbor 19 March for training exercises, then sailed by way of Eniwetok to Okinawa where she landed reinforcements and combat cargo on 1 May. A week later she sailed for Saipan to debark casualties, and continued to San Francisco, arriving 29 May.
Dutchess sailed from Portland, Oregon, 13 June 1945 with troops for Pearl Harbor, then transported men of the IXth Corps, U.S. Army, to San Pedro, Leyte, arriving 15 July. She voyaged to carry troops from San Francisco to Manila between 21 July and 12 September, then sailed in the Philippines in local redeployment of troops.[1] Left San Francisco, 1530, Tuesday, 31 August 1945. Crossed International Date line Wednesday night and had Friday next day, 31 August. Name of ship is U.S.S. Duchess or PA-98. First stop at Marshall, 3 September, at 11 o’clock. Left 2:30 that afternoon arrived Carolinas, 7 September, in morning. Left 8 September. Arrived at Manila Bay 12 September at quarter past nine.
Operation Magic Carpetedit
Dutchess arrived at Wakayama, Japan, 7 October 1945, and landed occupation troops at Nagoya on the 26th and 27th. She was assigned to Operation Magic Carpet and sailed from Nagoya 1 November to embark returning servicemen at Manila and carry them to San Francisco arriving 25 November. A similar voyage was made between 8 December 1945 and 25 January 1946.
Decommissioningedit
Dutchess left San Francisco 1 February for the East Coast, arriving at Norfolk 19 February. She was decommissioned there 4 April 1946 and delivered to the War Shipping Administration the next day for disposal.
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