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Photo # SC 255942:  Army troops draw ammunition on board USS Joseph T. Dickman before the North Africa invasion, November 1942

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USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26, later APA-13), 1941-1946 -- Part II


This page features additional views related to USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26, later APA-13).

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26, later APA-13), 1941-1946.


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    Photo #: 80-G-466194

    Convoy WS-12


    View looking aft from USS Ranger (CV-4), with USS Orizaba (AP-24) -- center -- and USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26) steaming in column astern, while en route to Capetown, South Africa, on 21 November 1941.
    A Vought SB2U scout bomber, of Scouting Squadron 41 (VS-41) is parked at right. Visible on the flight deck is the letter "G" of Ranger's pre-war identification marking "RNGR".

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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    Photo #: 80-G-464654

    Convoy WS-12


    Vought SB2U scout bomber from USS Ranger (CV-4) flies anti-submarine patrol over the convoy, while it was en route to Capetown, South Africa, 27 November 1941. The convoy appears to be making a formation turn from column to line abreast.
    Two-stack transports in the first row are USS West Point (AP-23) -- left --; USS Mount Vernon (AP-22) and USS Wakefield (AP-21). Heavy cruisers, on the right side of the first row and middle of the second, are USS Vincennes (CA-44) and USS Quincy (CA-39). Single-stack transports in the second row are USS Leonard Wood (AP-25) and USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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    Photo #: 80-G-2275

    Convoy WS-12


    Steaming toward Capetown, South Africa, in November 1941.
    USS Quincy (CA-39) leads the nearest column, followed by USS Wakefield (AP-21), USS Mount Vernon (AP-22), USS West Point (AP-23) and USS Cimarron (AO-22). The second column is led by USS Ranger (CV-4), followed by USS Orizaba (AP-24), USS Leonard Wood (AP-25), USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26) and USS Vincennes (CA-44). The other ships present are destroyers.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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    Photo #: SC 255942

    North Africa invasion, November 1942


    U.S. Army troops, of the Third Infantry Division, draw ammunition on board USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26) on 7 November 1942, the day before the landings at Fedhala, Morocco.

    Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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    Photo #: 26-G-1788

    Sicily Invasion, July 1943


    LCVPs from USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13) landing vehicles through the surf at Gela, Sicily, on 10-12 July 1943.
    The truck in the center appears to have stalled.

    Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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    Photo #: SC 185093

    Algiers, Algeria


    Remains of a merchant ship that exploded, causing a fire on another British freighter, 17 July 1943.
    Debris in the water includes some of the gasoline and oil drums which exploded and were thrown over 150 feet in the air. LCVP in the right center appears to be from USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13).
    Photographed by Brown.

    Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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    Photo #: 26-G-3423

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    A Coast Guard manned transport lowers a Jeep into a LCM landing craft during June 1944.
    The LCM is from USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13), but the ship in the photo is not her.

    Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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    Photo #: 80-G-252689

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    An LCVP landing craft pulls alongside two LCS(R) boats off "Utah" Beach, 10 June 1944. The LCS(R) are from USS Bayfield (APA-33) and USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13).
    USS LCT-533 is passing by in the right middle distance, followed by a "Rhino" tug (RHT).
    Photographed by Combat Photo Unit Eight (CPU-8).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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    Photo #: 80-G-252688

    Normandy Invasion, June 1944


    Two LCS(R) boats from USS Bayfield (APA-33) and USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13) moored together off "Utah" Beach, 10 June 1944.
    Photographed by Combat Photo Unit Eight (CPU-8).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26, later APA-13), 1941-1946.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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