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Photo # 80-G-54505:  Hoisting out landing craft from USS Heywood, during the Attu invasion, May 1943

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Heywood (AP-12, later APA-6) --
-- Actions and Activities


This page features all the views we have related to USS Heywood's actions and activities.

For other views of this ship, see:

  • USS Heywood (AP-12, later APA-6), 1940-1946.


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

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 47005

    Convoy to Iceland, September 1941


    Transports underway, circa 7 September 1941, seen from USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37).
    These ships are (from left to right):
    USS William P. Biddle (AP-15);
    USS Heywood (AP-12); and
    USS Harry Lee (AP-17).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-54505

    Attu Invasion, May 1943


    USS Heywood (APA-6) hoists out LCVPs, off Attu on the first day of the invasion, 11 May 1943.
    Note binnacle mounted in front of the ship's open bridge, in the lower left.

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

    Online Image: 92KB; 585 x 765 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 80-G-50773

    Attu Invasion, May 1943


    Troops boarding a LCM alongside USS Heywood (APA-6), in the fog off Attu, 11 May 1943.

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

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 80-G-50770

    Attu Invasion, May 1943


    Soldiers climb down cargo netting to board landing craft alongside USS Heywood (APA-6), off Attu on 11 May 1943.
    Note the M1 carbines carried by some of these men.

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

    Online Image: 85KB; 585 x 765 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: NH 78232

    Attu Invasion, May 1943


    USS Pruitt (DM-22) leads landing craft from USS Heywood (APA-6) toward their landing beaches in Massacre Bay, Attu, on the first day of the invasion, 11 May 1943.
    Pruitt used her radar and searchlight to guide the boats nine miles through the fog. The searchlight beam is faintly visible pointing aft from atop her pilothouse.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photo Collection. Collection of James C. Fahey.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 43KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-50848

    Attu Invasion, May 1943


    Soldiers unloading LCPR and LCM type landing craft on the beach at Massacre Bay, Attu, on 12 May 1943.
    Boats are from USS Heywood (APA-6).
    Note the Military Policeman overseeing operations from his position near the right side of the image.

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

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 80-G-50921

    Attu Invasion, May 1943


    Soldiers unload landing craft on the beach at Massacre Bay, Attu, on 13 May 1943.
    LCVPs in the foreground are from USS Zeilin (APA-3) and USS Heywood (APA-6).

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

    Online Image: 139KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: 80-G-325409

    USS William P. Biddle (APA-8)


    Off Mindoro, Philippine Islands, during the later stages of the campaign there, February 1945.
    USS Heywood (APA-6) is in the right center background, beyond William P. Biddle's bow.
    Both ships wear camouflage Measure 32, Design 9t.

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

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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

     

    For other views of this ship, see:

  • USS Heywood (AP-12, later APA-6), 1940-1946.


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


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