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USAT City of Dallas



Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Liberation Medal
Freighter:
  • Laid down, date unknown, as the laker SS Lake Fillion for the United States Shipping Board at Toledo Shipbuilding Co., Toledo, OH.
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered to the United States Shipping Board in November 1919
  • Sold to Southern Steamship Co., Philadelphia, PA., date unknown
  • Name changed to SS City of Dallas, date unknown
  • Acquired by the War Shipping Administration, 30 November 1942, from the Southern Steamship Co.
  • Allocated to the War Department Transportation Corps, 30 November 1942
  • City ofDallas was assigned to the U.S. Army Small Ships Section, U.S. Army Services of Supply (USASOS), Southwest-Pacific Area
  • Final Disposition, while serving as supply ship at Hollandia, New Guinea, struck by USAT Lake Ormoc and severely holed March 1943, grounded at Hollandia
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,606 gross tons
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement
    Officers unknown
    Enlisted, unknown
    Troopship Passenger Capacity unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Fuel Capacity 679 tons NSFO
    Propulsion
    one triple expansion steam engine two boilers, 180psi
    single shaft
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    City of Dallas
    302202201    		 78k Aerial port quarter view of USAT City of Dallas in Australian waters, 6 September 1943. Note the 3inch gun aft and the 20mm Oerlikon AA guns on the bridge wings (Naval Historical Collection)
    Australian War Memorial    		 John Spivey
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