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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Contributed by Mike Smolinski

AD-14 Dixie

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Golf - Sierra

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon
Second Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (2 stars-Iran/Indian Ocean) - China Service Medal (extended) - American Defense Service Medal
Third Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Fourth Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Korean Service Medal (5 stars)
Fifth Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2 stars-Vietnam) - Humanitarian Service Medal (1-Typhoon Pamela) - Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation
Sixth Row - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

Dixie Class Destroyer Tender:

Laid down as the lead ship of the Dixie Class Destroyer Tenders, 17 March 1938, at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.

Launched, 27 May 1939

Commissioned USS Dixie (AD-14), 25 April 1940, LCDR. G. H. Bahm in command

During the Korean War Dixie (AD-14) participated in the following campaigns:

**Korean War Campaigns**
Campaigns and Dates 1951-52	Campaigns and Dates 1953
First UN Counter Offensive 30 January to 3 February 1951	Third Korean Winter 11 to 13 April 1953
Second Korean Winter 25 to 27 February 1952 24 to 27 March 1952	Korea, Summer-Fall 1953 30 to 31 May 1953
Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952 2 to 5 May 1952 25 to 26 June 1952 7 to 8 July 1952 20 to 23 March 1953	.

Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register 15 June 1982

Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., 17 February 1983

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 17 February 1983 and towed to Taiwan for dismantling

Dixie received five battle stars for Korean War service

Specifications:
Displacement 16,500 t.
Length 530' 6"
Beam 73' 3"
Draft 24' 6"
Speed 18 kts.
Complement 1,262
Armament four 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, four 40mm gun mounts
Propulsion steam turbines two propellers

Size	Image Description	Source / Contributed By
11k	Dixie (AD-14), place unknown, 1940.	Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
109k	Dixie (AD-14) with Harmon (DE-678) and another Destroyer Escort in-board of Harmon, at Hawthorne Sound, New Georgia, May 1944. Note *Dixie* is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design 3Ax. US National Archives photo # 80-G-238416, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	US Naval Historical Center
205k	Dixie (AD-14) at anchor in Leyte, circa April-May 1945. Note the ship's jack is at half staff, dating the photo to the period of mourning for the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on 12 April 1945.. *Dixie* is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design. US Navy photo	Darryl Baker
233k	Dixie (AD-14) at anchor with a nest of destroyers alongside at Leyte, circa April-May 1945. The destroyers are from left to right: Compton (DD-705), Ault (DD-698), Charles S. Sperry (DD-697), English (DD-696) John W. Weeks (DD-701), and Borie (DD-704). Note *Dixie* is painted Camouflage Measure 32, Design. US Navy photo	Darryl Baker
41k	Dixie (AD-14), date and place unknown.	Louis Drinovsky
34k	Dixie (AD-14), with Long (DD-209) alongside, circa 1940. Of special note are the gun mounts on *Long*, she was one of only two "flush deckers" to be armed with twin 4" weapons. US Navy photo	.
145k	Dixie (AD-14) BMC Reid supervising Second Division sailors as they use the starboard crane to hoist a destroyer propeller on board at Sasebo, Japan, circa July to September 1950. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, September 1950	Photo supplied by Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. Caption information supplied by Dick Marlin BMSN USS Dixie 1948-1951, Second Div.
76k	Dixie (AD-14) at Sasebo, Japan with John A. Bole (DD 755), Buck (DD 761), John W. Thomason (DD 760), and Lofberg (DD 759) moored to port, circa 1953.	Wayne Schafer
89k	Dixie (AD-14) at San Diego, CA. with Destroyer Squadron Eleven alongside. Identifiable ships present and moored on *Dixie's port side include; Wiltsie* (DD-716), Theodore E. Chandler (DD-717) and Chevalier (DD-805). US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine August 1960.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
102k	Dixie (AD-14) at San Diego, CA. with a nest of six destroyers moored port side to. Ships present (inboard to outboard): Gregory (DD-802), Stoddard (DD-566), Isherwood (DD-520), Mullany (DD-528), Hanson (DD-832) and Tassig (DD-746). US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine March 1963.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
53k	Dixie (AD-14) underway off Point Loma while exiting San Diego Bay, date unknown. ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.	Mike Smolinski
85k	Dixie (AD-14) at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 28 February 1966	© Richard Leonhardt
92k	Dixie (AD-14) at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 28 February 1966. Finch (DER-328) alongside, inboard, to port, with Stickell (DD-888) outboard, port side.	© Richard Leonhardt
56k	Dixie (AD-14) at Subic Bay with two destroyers and a yard oiler alongside, date unknown.	Photo by Larry Backus USS Bausell
84k	Dixie (AD-14) with a nest of six destroyers moored starboard side to, date and place unknown. Ships present (inboard to outboard): Uhlmann (DD-687), Walker (DD-517), Taylor (DD-468), Boyd (DD-544), Bausell (DD-845) and Richard B. Anderson (DD-786. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine August 1970.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
48k	Dixie (AD-14) moored pierside, date and place unknown. ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.	Mike Smolinski
67k	Dixie (AD-14) off the southern California coast, 1 April 1976	Fred Weiss
66k	Dixie (AD-14) off the southern California coast, 1 April 1976	Fred Weiss
69k	Dixie (AD-14) off the southern California coast, 1 April 1976	Fred Weiss
83k	Dixie (AD-14) transiting the Panama Canal	David McCormick
78k	Dixie (AD-14) moored to a buoy at Diego Garcia, in 1980 with Cook (FF-1083) to starboard and probably Los Angeles (SSN-688) to port. *Dixie's crew was changing out one of Cook*'s screws. A job really done by a tender while deployed. US Navy photo	Courtesy Gordon Bennett HTC (SW) USN Ret.