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| Keywords: Sailors paint stack of USS General J.C. Breckinridge (AP-176) c1949.jpg U S Navy sailors paint the forward stack of the troop transport USS General J C Breckinridge AP-176 In October 1949 all the ships in the Naval Transportation Service were reassigned to the newly created Military Sea Transportation Service MSTS As a ship operationally subordinate to MSTS she was redesignated T-AP-176 but because she was a commissioned vessel with a Navy not civilian crew General J C Breckinridge retained the designation USS instead of becoming USNS http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah195003 pdf March 1950 p 67 ca 1949 U S Navy All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official U S Navy photographs unless otherwise designated PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS General J C Breckinridge AP-176 | ||||
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