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DEDICATION The necessity for a repair ship such as the DIXIE to travel abroad is one that we all accept without reservation, for it is this type of ship that keeps our other ships in a state of preparedness. During the time that the men of the DIXIE have been aivay from their loved ones, they soon realized that the life blood of a sailor is the mail that he receives at each atiticipated mail call. Each tnail call is anticipated ivith an increased intensity. How big is the baby ? Is she talking, yet ? What ' s happening at home ? Who did this or that ? These and many other questions were answered daily by mail. To the wives, sweethearts, mothers and fathers who kept the mail bag loaded with words from home, we, the men of the DIXIE, dedicate this book, the story of our crew and our cruise, so that you too ?7iight share the history recorded in pictures within these covers.
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— -- — S B :«-»R«2-Lr-Ll« Nr rfi -»: P . ' .s ' ' i jrT. ' s p . n i -- A ' ??; . H THE USS DIXIE (AD-14), who gives her name to the Navy ' s largest class of destroyer tenders, was built at the New York Shipbuilding Company, New Jersey, and was launched 27 May 1939. The first ship to be designed from the keel up for the purpose of repairing and servicing modern fleet destroyers, the DIXIE was formally placed in commission on April 25 th 1940, at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Her twenty years of commissioned service is the longest span of continuous service of any ship in the Pacific Fleet Destroyer Force and is exceeded only by very few ships of the active fleet. After a short shakedown cruise, the DIXIE departed for West Coast via San Juan, Puerto Rico, Guanta- nimo Bay, Cuba, on down to Cristobal, the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal, through the canal to Panama City, and then to San Diego, Calif. The DIXIE ' S entire career has been devoted to serving destroyers of the Pacific Fleet. Although San Diego has always been her home port, her first five years were spent, for the most part, in close support of destroyers in World War II combat. The DIXIE operated in such places as New Caledonia, the Hebrides, the Southern Solomons and the Northern Solomons where she provided for the needs of such reknowned outfits as Admiral Arleigh Burke ' s Little Beavers (Destroyer Squadron 23) in their operations up The Slot . She also provided support at the Netherlands East Indies, the Western Carolinas, and eventually the Philippines where she maintained a record of returning the combatant ships to the fighting front with a minimum of delay. Leaving the Philippines soon after the end of the war, the DIXIE joined a convoy to Okinawa. She left Okinawa shortly after her arrival there and joined another convoy to Shanghai, where she remained and carried on her repair work until 5 December 1945, when she finally turned her bow homeward. The DIXIE arrived in Seattle, 17 December 1945 after almost four straight years of overseas duty. In 1946 she turned westward again to assist in Operations Crossroads at the Bikini Atoll. The DIXIE returned again to San Diego via Pearl Harbor and San Francisco arriving 4 October 1946 and remained there servicing destroyers until 3 March 1947 when she left for Tsingtao, China via Pearl Harbor. Having been relieved by the PRAIRIE, the DIXIE started home 13 September 1947 and arrived in San Diego 2 October 1947. She remained in San Diego and Long Beach repairing ships until 15 Februay 1949, when she returned to Tsingtao, China via Pearl Harbor for relief of the SIERRA and Flagship for Com- mander Service Squadron 3, arriving 7 March 1949. Upon relieving the SIERRA, information wis received that Tsingtao was surrounded by the Communist Forces and preparations were made by the Asiatic Fleet to leave on short notice. The DIXIE left Tsingtao 24 May 1949 just before it fell to the Communist armies. She arrived at Alacrity Anchorage off Shanghai, China, on 26 May 1949 and left the same night after word was received that Shanghai had fallen to the communists, arriving at Buckner Bay, Okinawa 27 May 1949. The DIXIE departed from Buckner Bay 14 June 1949 for Yokosuka, Japan arriving 16 June 1949. DIXIE departed 22 June 1949 for Hong Kong, British Crown Colony in South China arriving 29 June 1949. She departed 1 July for Subic Bay, Philippines to act as headquarters for the American Consul and Charge de Affairs on the forced evacuation by the communists of all Americans in Canton, China.
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