USS Dorothea L . Dix ( AP - 67 ) USS " Dorothea L . Dix " ( AP - 67 ) was a transport ship of the United States Navy named for Dorothea Dix ( 1802 – 1887 ) . " Dorothea L . Dix " was launched on 22 June 1940 as " Exemplar " by Bethlehem Steel Company , Quincy , Massachusetts , under a Maritime Commission contract ; sponsored by Miss P . J . Kalloch ; transferred to the Navy on 13 September 1942 ; and commissioned on 17 September 1942 , Captain L . B . Schulten in command . Service history . Mediterranean , 1942 – 1943 . Putting to sea from Cove Point , Maryland , on 23 October 1942 , " Dorothea L . Dix " sailed with Task Force 34 ( TF 34 ) to land Army troops and supply scout boats in the assault at Safi , French Morocco , from 8 to 12 November , during " Operation Torch " . She returned to Norfolk on 24 November . Between 12 December 1942 and 5 April 1943 she made two more transatlantic voyages to Oran , Algeria , carrying Army troops and nurses . After amphibious training at Norfolk , she sailed on 8 June 1943 for Oran , arriving on 22 June . On 5 July she got underway for the invasion of Sicily , arriving off Scoglitti late on 9 July and debarking her troops and cargo early the next day under heavy air attack . She embarked wounded and one Italian prisoner and returned to Oran on 15 July . A week later she was en route to New York , arriving on 3 August to debark her passengers , German prisoners of war . A similar voyage was made to Oran between 21 August and 21 September after which she sailed on 8 October for the United Kingdom . " Dorothea L . Dix " arrived at Gourock Bay , Scotland , on 17 October 1943 , and sailed ten days later for Algiers where she exchanged troops for 243 survivors of and for Oran to embark Army troops . She unloaded cargo at Gourock Bay between 24 and 30 November then sailed to New York , arriving on 11 December . Between 29 December 1943 and 10 March 1944 she carried troops on two voyages from New York to Gourock Bay and Liverpool . Normandy landings , 1944 . On 23 March 1944 " Dorothea L . Dix " sailed from New York for Belfast , Northern Ireland , arriving on 3 April . After amphibious training in the Clyde area , she sortied with Temporary Transport Division 97 from the Isle of Portland , England , on 5 June for the invasion landings at Normandy the following day . She returned to Weymouth Bay on the 7th to debark casualties , then embarked troops in the Clyde area and tanks at Avonmouth which she carried to Naples , arriving on 16 July . Mediterranean , 1944 . She put out from Naples on 13 August 1944 for the invasion of southern France two days later , unloading tanks and Army troops for the assault landings . She continued to support this operation by carrying French , British , and Italian as well as American troops to Baie de la Cavalaire and Marseilles from Naples and Oran until 22 October . Three days later she left Oran for New York , arriving on 8 November . Pacific , 1945 – 1946 . " Dorothea L . Dix " put to sea from New York on 18 December 1944 , and arrived at San Francisco on 4 January 1945 . Two weeks later she sailed to carry Army troops to Pearl Harbor , returning to San Francisco on 2 February . After a voyage to Attu , to transport Army troops to Aleutian Islands she proceeded to Okinawa arriving on 1 May . Here she landed support troops and embarked casualties and naval passengers for San Francisco , arriving on 27 May . Between 10 June 1945 and 9 February 1946 " Dorothea L . Dix " operated on transport duty from San Francisco and other west coast ports to the Philippines , carrying replacements to the Pacific and returning veterans . She sailed to New York on 29 March 1946 , was decommissioned there on 24 April 1946 , and returned to the Maritime Commission for disposal the same day . Awards . " Dorothea L . Dix " received five battle star s for World War II service . Trivia . The Dorothea L . Dix was featured as an ammunition ship you had to kamikaze into in order to destroy two carriers in Battlestations Pacific .