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USS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, OR3, Bow, ShipUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrep, USN, United States Navy, OR3, Bow, ShipUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrep, USN, United States Navy, OR3, Bow, ShipUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrep, USN, United States Navy, OR3, Bow, ShipUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrep, USN, United States Navy, OR3, ShipUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrep, USN, United States Navy, ShipUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3)USS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrepUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrep, USN, United States Navy, ShipUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), unrep, USN, United States Navy, ShipUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrepUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrep, USN, United States Navy, ShipUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), OR3, Valley Forge (CG-50), United States NavyUSS Kansas City, (AOR-3), OR3, Valley Forge (CG-50)USS Kansas City, (AOR-3), OR3, ShipBow, USS Valley Forge (CG-50), Ship, Ticonderoga-class cruiser
USS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrep, USN, United States Navy, Ship
Code Number:
MYNV06P06_18.1704
Title:
USS Kansas City, (AOR-3), Wichita Class Replenishment Oiler, unrep, USN, United States Navy, Ship
Keel Laid down: 18/04/1968, at General Dynamics Corp., Quincy, Massachusetts
Launched: 1/06/1969
Commissioned: 6/06/1970

During the Vietnam War Kansas City (AOR-3) participated in the following campaigns:
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII
12 to 27/06/1971 Vietnam Ceasefire
5 to 28/05/1972
9 to 24/06/1972
4 to 19/06/1972
28 July to 15/08/1972
29 August to 8/09/1972
27 September to 18/10/1972
1 to 26/11/1972
Consolidation I
9 to 26/07/1971
6 to 30/08/1971
6 to 8/09/1971
26 September to 13/10/1971
21 October to 3/11/1971 .

Decommissioned: 7/10/1994
Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
Struck from the Naval Register: 8/04/1997
Custody transferred to MARAD: 24/02/2001
Kansas City earned the Meritorious Unit Commendation and three campaign stars for Vietnam War service.

Displacemen:t 14,048 t.(lt) 39,790 t.(fl)
Length: 659 feet
Beam: 96 feet
Draft: 37 feet (max.)
Speed: 20 knots
Complement: 34 Officers, 463 Enlisted
Armament:
2x Phalanx Close-In-Weapons System (CIWS)
Sparrow Missile System (NSSMS)
Aircraft: 2x CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters
Propulsion: three boilers, two steam turbines, twin shafts, 32,000 shp
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Image by:
Wernher Krutein

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