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USS Sandoval (APA-194/LPA-194) was a Haskell-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946, from 1951 to 1955 and from 1961 to 1970. She was scrapped in 1983. She was scrapped in 1983.
USS Sandoval (APA-194), an attack transport commissioned 7 October 1944 List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names.
A number of Allied ships were damaged by Japanese suicide air attacks during World War II.Many of these attacks were by the kamikaze (officially Shinpū Tokubetsu Kōgekitai, "Divine Wind Special Attack Unit"), using pilot-guided explosive missiles, purpose-built or converted from conventional aircraft, by the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific ...
Two transports with the hull symbol AP, USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) and USS Leedstown (AP-73), had been configured as attack transports but were sunk in 1942 before the introduction of the APA hull symbol on 1 February 1943. All attack transports (APA) in service in 1969 were reclassified as amphibious transports (LPA).
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This section of the list of United States Navy ships contains all ships of the United States Navy with names beginning with S. . For a list exclusively of currently commissioned ships, see the List of current ships of the United States Navy.
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Task Force O was the naval component responsible for landing troops at Omaha Beach during the Normandy Landings, June 6, 1944. Bombarding Force C, also part of Task Force O was the group responsible for supporting gunfire to the landings.