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USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13)
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USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26) (1941 - 1943)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Bravo - Quebec NWBQ

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (Sicily-10July43) - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (5) - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal

USS Joseph T. Dickman was manned by the US Coast Guard during World War II

Harris Class Transport:

Laid down, 20 July 1920, for the Emergency Fleet Corp as Passenger/Cargo Liner SS Peninsula State under USSB Contract # 2584 at New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, N.J., assigned to the United States Mail Line

Launched 6 July 1921

Delivered 8 February 1922

Renamed SS President Pierce in May 1922

Transferred to the United States Lines in August 1922, renamed SS President Roosevelt

Taken over by the War Department in October 1940 for conversion to a troopship, renamed USAT Joseph T. Dickman

Converted to a troopship by Atlantic Basin Iron Works of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Transferred to the US Navy, 27 May 1941

Commissioned USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26) at the New York Navy Yard, 10 June 1941, LCDR. C.W. Harwood, USCG, in command

Reclassified Attack Transport (APA-13), 1 February 1943

During WWII USS Joseph T. Dickman was assigned first to the European Theater and later to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

**European Campaigns** **Asiatic Pacific Campaign**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
North African occupation Algeria-Morocco landings, 8 to 17 November 1942	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 1 to 9 April 1945
Sicilian occupation Gela, 10 to 12 July 1943	.
Salerno landings 9 September 1943	.
Invasion of Normandy Utah beach, 6 June 1944	.
Invasion of Southern France 14 to 16 August 1944	.

Decommissioned, 7 March 1946 and returned to the Maritime Commission

Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)

Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 22 January 1947, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Group, Benecia, CA.

Final Disposition, sold by the Maritime Commission, 9 January 1948, to the Kaiser Co., for scrapping

USS Joseph T. Dickman received six battle stars for World War II service

Specifications:
Displacement 13,529 t.(lt) 21,900 t(fl)
Length 535' 2"
Beam 72' 4"
Draft 31' 3"
Speed 16.7 kts.
Complement

58 officers

635 enlisted
Troop Accommodations

95 officers

1,961 Enlisted
Cargo Capacity 170,000 cu. ft, 2,600 t.
Armament

four 3"/50 single dual purpose gun mounts

two twin mount 40mm AA gun mounts

eighteen single 20mm AA gun mounts
Propulsion

eight Yarrow header-type boilers

two Curtis type turbines

two propellers

Designed shaft horsepower 10,000

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	89k	SS President Roosevelt underway in the livery of the American President Lines, date and location unknown.	Robert Hurst
USS Joseph T. Dickman (APA-13)
	222k	*Namesake* Joseph Theodore Dickman was born October 6, 1857 in Dayton, Ohio. He attended the University of Dayton and graduated in the class of 1871. In 1881 he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned in the 3rd Cavalry. Dickman graduated from the US Army Cavalry School in 1883 and proceeded directly to the Indian territory, where he participated in the Apache War from 1885-1886, to include the Geronimo Campaign. He next participated in the Mexican border patrol operations against Garza revolutionists and the bandits, Benavides and Gonzales. Dickman's deployment during the Spanish-American War was notable. He participated in the battle of San Juan Hill-El Caney, Santiago de Cuba. He served on the staff of General Joseph Wheeler during the Philippine Insurrection from 1899-1902 and at the Battles on the Island of Panay from 1899-1900. During the Boxer Rebellion, Dickman was Chief of Staff to General Adna R. Chaffee for the Peking Relief Expedition and fought in the battle at Pa-ta-Chao, Peking on September 26, 1900. Dickman was on the Army General Staff from 1902-1905. He was an instructor at the Army War College from 1905-1912. Dickman was the US Army Inspector General from 1912-1915, taking over 2nd US Cavalry in 1915. He was given command of the 85th Infantry Division, Camp Custer, Michigan, in August of 1917. Dickman was given command of the 3rd Infantry Division in November of 1917, at the onset of World War I. He deployed 3rd Division to France aboard the Leviathan at noon, on March 4, 1918. He was the 3rd Division Commander at Chateau-Thierryin May 1918 and was made famous at the Second Battle of the Marne in July of 1918. While allied forces on both flanks retreated, the 3rd Division stood fast in the face of fantastic enemy offensives, which led to their moniker, "The Rock of the Marne." Dickman commanded IV Corps from August to September of 1918, to include the Saint-Mihiel Offensive in September 1918. Dickman commanded I Corps from October to November 1918, to include the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Third Army was established under the command of Dickman by General John J. Pershing in France to advance to the Rhein and hold the Coblenz bridgehead, then prepare to serve after the war as the Army of Occupation. The Third Army would have become the Army of Occupation whether or not the enemy signed the peace agreement. American fighting units not sent home were consolidated under Third Army and prepared to attack if Germany did not accept the terms of peace. The United States itself was not to sign the agreement but remained technically at war with Germany for two more years. Dickman returned from World War I to serve as President of the Tactics and Organization Board, which reported on lessons learned during the war from April-July 1919. Dickman served as Commanding General of the VIII Corps Area from 1919-21 He retired on October 6, 1921. He was later recalled to preside over postwar-Army downsizing board in 1922. His memoirs were published in 1927. He died in Washington, D.C., on October 23, 1928. Text from: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Digital ID: cph 3c22292 Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs	Bill Gonyo
	134k	*USS Joseph T. Dickman* (APA-13)** underway in April 1942. Her camouflage is Measure 32R. US Navy photo #: NH 99278 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.	Mike Green
	133k	*USS Joseph T. Dickman* (APA-13)** at anchor circa 1943. A US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. US National Archives photo 26-G-12-14-43(4) from the US Coast Guard Collection in the US National Archives.	Mike Green
	46k	*USS Joseph T. Dickman* (APA-13)** underway, 8 April 1943, location unknown. US Navy photo.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
	63k	*USS Joseph T. Dickman* (APA-13)** at anchor while disembarking troops, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	.
	57k	*USS Joseph T. Dickman* (APA-13)** at anchor while disembarking troops, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Joe Radigan, MACM USN Ret
	123k	*USS Joseph T. Dickman* (APA-13)** at anchor in Loch Long, near Gourock, Scotland in 1944.	Harry Harvey
	57k	*USS Joseph T. Dickman* (APA-13) at sea in convoy with other transports, probably at the time of the Southern France invasion, August 1944. Photographed from USS Quincy (CA-71)**. A US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.US National Archives photo #: 80-G-K-1947 (Color).	Mike Green
	68k	*USS Joseph T. Dickman* (APA-13)**'s LCVP No. 25, among other LCVPs, being loaded with men and equipment during the first days of June 1944 at one of the "hards" (paved strips running to the water's edge) in southern England for the invasion of Normandy. US Army Signal Corps photo.	Ramon Jackson