page_title: USS Begor
section_title: Korean War, 1950–1953
hierarchical_section_title: USS Begor / Service history / Korean War, 1950–1953
caption_attribution_description: English: Demolition charges destroy Hungnam port facilities and remaining U.N. supplies at the conclusion of evacuation operations, 24 December 1950. The U.S. Navy high-speed transport USS Begor (APD-127) and a motor launch are standing by offshore.
context_page_description: USS Begor was a Crosley-class high speed transport of the United States Navy, named for Lieutenant Fay B. Begor, a Navy doctor who was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
  Begor was laid down by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan, as a Rudderow-class destroyer escort with the hull number DE-711. She was launched on 25 May 1944, sponsored by Mrs. F. B. Begor, widow of Lt. Begor. A few weeks after launching, on 17 July 1944, it was decided that Begor would be completed as a Crosley-class high speed transport, with the designation APD-127. She was commissioned on 14 March 1945, with Lieutenant Commander B. T. Brooks, USNR, in command.
context_section_description: During the Korean War, Begor served two tours.  The first tour, 7 December 1950 through September 1951, included participation in the Hŭngnam Evacuation from 9 through 24 December, and the landing of Underwater Demolition Teams and British Commandos behind enemy lines for reconnaissance and demolition missions.  On 7 April 1951, as part of Special Task Force 74, Begor along with destroyers Wallace L. Lind (DD-703), and Massey (DD-778), landing ship dock Fort Marion (LSD-22) and heavy cruiser Saint Paul (CA-73), helped to carry out raids on rail lines and tunnels utilizing 250 commandos of the 41 (Independent) Commando, Royal Marines.  These highly successful and destructive raids slowed the enemy's resupply efforts, forcing the Communists to attempt to repair or rebuild the rail facilities by night while hiding the work crews and locomotives in tunnels by day.  The second tour, from 14 November 1952 through 12 August 1953, consisted of patrol and UDT operations, as well as participation in the post-Armistice prisoner of war exchange.
caption: Begor (foreground) stands by off Hungnam, North Korea, as U.S. Navy and U.S. Army explosives teams destroy facilities and abandoned United Nations supplies in Hungnam on 24 December 1950, the last day of the amphibious evacuation of United Nations forces from Hungnam during the Korean War.
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