BECKHAM APA 133

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Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

    Haskell Class Attack Transport
    Keel Laid July 27 1944 as Maritime Commission type (VC2-S-AP5) hull
    Launched October 14 1944

  1. USS BECKHAM APA-133
    Commissioned December 10 1944 - Decommissioned April 25 1946
    Laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet April 29 1946

    Sold September 5 1974 to Sparreboom Shipbrokers for scrap

Naval Covers

This section lists active links to the pages displaying covers associated with the ship. There should be a separate set of pages for each name of the ship (for example, Bushnell AG-32 / Sumner AGS-5 are different names for the same ship so there should be one set of pages for Bushnell and one set for Sumner). Covers should be presented in chronological order (or as best as can be determined).

Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

  1. Covers Page 1     (1945-46)

 

Postmarks

This section lists examples of the postmarks used by the ship. There should be a separate set of postmarks for each name and/or commissioning period. Within each set, the postmarks should be listed in order of their classification type. If more than one postmark has the same classification, then they should be further sorted by date of earliest known usage.

A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.


 

Postmark Type
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Killer Bar Text

Date From
to
Date To
Thumbnail Link To
Postmark Image
Thumbnail Link To
Cover Image


 

Locy Type
2z

1946-02-05

Note:


 

Locy Type
9#

(Br. #15078)

1945-06-17
to
1945-06-26

Mark from back of cover


 

Locy Type
SLK

1946-04-14

Note:


 

Other Information

BECKHAM earned 2 Battle Stars (WWII)
* Iwo Jima operation, March 1945
* Okinawa operation, June 1945

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons...
China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

NAMESAKE - A county in western Oklahoma

 


 

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