page_title: USS Bexar
section_title: Vietnam War
hierarchical_section_title: USS Bexar / History / Vietnam War
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Navy 7th Fleet Amphibious Ready Group underway in March 1965. The ships are (l-r): USS Bexar (APA-237), USS Princeton (LPH-5), USS Thomaston (LSD-28), and USS O'Bannon (DD-450). Sikorsky UH-34D helicopters of Marine Medium Helicopter Transport Squadron HMM-365 fly above the ships while Princeton´s crew spells out the groups' designations "TG 76.5/79.5" on the flight deck. Note: In the original caption DD-450 is wrongly identified as USS Joseph E. Connolly (DE-450), which was already decommissioned in 1946.
context_page_description: USS Bexar was a Haskell-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1970. She was scrapped in 1982.
context_section_description: Bexar also saw extensive service in the Vietnam War, from 1965 to  1969.  In 1965, she helped land the first US ground troops at Chu Lai.
  On 1 January 1969, Bexar along with the other surviving attack transports from World War II were redesignated amphibious transports, Bexar receiving the designation LPA-237.
caption: Bexar (left) as part of TG 76.5 off Vietnam in March 1965.
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