page_title: USS James O'Hara (APA-90)
section_title: Decommission and return to the Army
hierarchical_section_title: USS James O'Hara (APA-90) / World War II / Decommission and return to the Army
caption_attribution_description: English: The U.S. Military Sea Transportation Service troop transport USNS James O'Hara (T-AP-179) underway at sea in the 1950s.
context_page_description: USS James O'Hara (APA-90) was a Frederick Funston-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II and later in the Korean War. The ship was named after a Continental Army officer who fought in the Revolutionary War and who later became Quartermaster General of the US Army.
  Initially acquired as an Army transport, the ship was soon acquired by the Navy and reclassified an attack transport for the duration of the war, then returned to the Army and redesignated USNS James O'Hara. In the 1950s she was reacquired once again by the Navy and reclassified, serving as USS James O'Hara until her final decommissioning.
  The ship was laid down for the Army under Maritime Commission contract by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, Tacoma, Washington, 16 June 1941; launched 30 December 1941; and delivered to the Army 30 November 1942.
context_section_description: USS James O'Hara decommissioned at San Francisco 5 April 1946 and was transferred to the Army the same day. During the next 4 years she served out of Seattle, Washington as a transport with the Army Transportation Corps, under the name USNS James O'Hara.
caption: USNS James O'Hara
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