It was built at Camden Ship Building and Marineway in Camden, Maine, and was launched 9 July 1942 and commissioned 27 Oct 1942.
The APc-15 served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of operations and took part in the Bismarck Archipelago Operations.: Arawe, New Britain, 17-18 and 25-26 December 1943.
It was armed with four single 20 mm antiayrcraft guns.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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