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Photo # NH 98719:  USS Fond du Lac in San Francisco Bay in late 1945 or early 1946

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Fond du Lac (APA-166), 1944-1974

USS Fond du Lac, one of 117 Haskell class attack transports, was built to a modified Victory ship design at Vancouver, Washington, and was commissioned in November 1944. She sailed from San Francisco in January 1945 with reinforcement troops and cargo for Leyte Gulf, which she delivered in February. After assault loadout and training, Fond du Lac departed Leyte Gulf in March and participated in the assault on Okinawa on 1 April. She then carried casualties to Guam and continued east to Pearl Harbor and San Francisco. She delivered additional troops from the West Coast to the Philippines in June and then transferred men from New Guinea to the Philippines before heading back to San Francisco in July.

After the Japanese surrender, Fond du Lac delivered Marine occupation troops to Sasebo in September 1945 and then brought an additional contingent of occupation troops from the Philippines to Japan. She then carried out a "Magic Carpet" voyage, returning servicemen from Guam to the West Coast. In December she made another transport voyage to the Far East, and in January 1946 she made her last trip to Pearl Harbor. In February Fond du Lac sailed from San Francisco to Norfolk, where she was decommissioned and returned to the Maritime Commission in April for retention in its reserve fleet. She was sold in May 1974 for scrapping.

This page features our only view of USS Fond du Lac (APA-166).


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Photo #: NH 98719

USS Fond du Lac
(APA-166)

In San Francisco Bay, California, in late 1945 or early 1946.

Donation of Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 545 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Fond du Lac (APA-166). The following list features some of these images:

The images listed below are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-290537
    Port side view of USS Fond du Lac (APA-166) taken on 16 November 1944 at Astoria, Washington, showing camouflage pattern.

  • Photo #: 80-G-352561
    Starboard bow view of USS Fond du Lac (APA-166) coming alongside a pier to load passengers. Photographed by W. R. Card on or before 7 November 1945.

    Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


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


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