USS Elmore

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Home Page

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Battle Stars

Follow a map showing the eight battles that Elmore participated in and read a summery of each of those battles.

Timelines

Watch the daily history of the Elmore literally unfold before your very eyes as you follow the historic timeline of APA-42.

Deck Logs

Every Navy ships is required to keep deck logs (set in blocks of 4-hour intervals) of where the ship is at any given time. The logs contain this and other information. We have Elmore's logs for every day that she was commissioned as a U.S. Navy ship.

War Diary

A war diary is a regularly updated official record kept by military units of their activities during wartime. The purpose of these diaries is to both record information which can later be used by the military to improve its training and tactics as well as to generate a detailed record of units' activities for future use by historians. We have Elmore's war diary.

Ship's History

After the surrender and initial occupation of Japan, the Navy requested that each ship compose a short narrative of its activities during the war, for posterity. Here is the narrative submitted by Elmore.

Life Aboard a Transport

This is a guide written by the Marine Corps to explain what to expect aboard a Navy transport vessel. It includes dos and don'ts and other useful information.

Nice to Have You Aboard

Captain Harold Hopkins of the Royal Navy was assigned to Admiral Nimitz's staff as a liaison officer. He was an observer on the Elmore in 1944. Here is what he had to say about this experience in 1960.

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