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AP-67 Dorothea L Dix

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (4)
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
Dorothea L Dix Class Transport:
  • Laid down as Exemplar a Maritime Commission type (C3-E) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 102) at Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA.
  • Launched, 22 June 1940
  • Delivered and placed in service, 1 August 1940, as the British flagged freighter Empire Widgeon
  • Acquired by the Navy, 13 September 1942
  • Commissioned, USS Dorothea L Dix (AP-67), 17 September 1942
  • Decommissioned, 24 April 1946 at New York, N.Y, and returned to the Maritime Commission the same day
  • Turned over to her original owners, American Export Lines and was renamed Exemplar
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping in December 1968
  • Dorothea L Dix received five battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 5.500 t.(lt) 11,625 t.(fl)
    Length 473'
    Beam 66'
    Draft 22' 5"
    Speed 16 kts.
    Complement 422
    Troop Accommodations unknown
    Armament one single 4" gun mount, four 3"/50 guns
    Propulsion steam turbine, single propeller, 8,000shp
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    Dorothea L Dix 77k 171st Field Artillery and 179th Infantry, 45th Division, on Pier X, Newport News, about to embark for service overseas. Dorothea L Dix (AP-67), in the background.
    Official US Army photo produced by US Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, 4 June 1943. Photo now in the collections of the Library of Virginia. Image No. C1:2/05/074.     		The Library of Virginia, US Army Signal Corps Photograph Collection
    Dorothea L Dix 95k Dorothea L. Dix (AP-67) underway, 10 July 1943, the first day of the invasion of Sicily. A paravane is visible near the waterline about a third back from the bow.
    Photographed from Ancon (AGC-4). Note: the date 10 July 1943 is from the original caption. Since a full set of landing craft is embarked, it is possible that the photograph was taken earlier.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-215096, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Dorothea L Dix 59k A halftone reproduction of a photograph of Dorothea L. Dix (AP-67) taken during World War II, showing the ship in port.
    US Navy photo # NH 99114 copied from the book "Troopships of World War II", by Roland W. Charles, now in th collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Dorothea L Dix 53k Dorothea L. Dix (AP-67) at anchor, circa 1945, place unknown.
    US Navy photo # NH 86624, now in th collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.    		 US Naval Historical Center
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