Dixie (AD 14) - Naval Cruise Book

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Tsingtao, China 1947 £ 1949 Some of the children helped by DIXIE sailors Boat repairs in progress DIXIE made a cruise to the Far East in 1947 as the Flagship of Service Squadron Three, DIXIE arrived again in Tsingtao, China as the Chinese Communist army closed in. She departed Tsingtao on 7 March 1949 just before it fell to the Communist troops and touched the Alcity Anchorage off Shanghai on the 26th, only to find the city also in Communist hands. After brief visits to Buckner Bay, Yokosuka, and Hong Kong, she reached Subic Bay on 3 July 1949 to act as temporary headquarters for the American Consul and Charge d ' Affaires who had been forced to evacuate with other Americans from Canton, China. DIXIE was relieved of her duties in the Far East on II September and returned to San Diego 9 July 1950. The following day she was on her way to the Far East to support the Far East to support the United Nations Forces in their fight against Communist aggressions in Korea. Gun Deck looking aft from the pier at Tsingtao 1947 36

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DIXIE arrived in Yokosuka on 27 July 1950, then shifted to Sasebo, Japan where she remained tending destroyers until 27 January 1951. On that day she departed in company with battleship MISSOURI, cruiser MANCHESTER and seventeen destroyers to take part in the bombardment of the east coast of Korea. This bombardment was carried out on 31 January 1951 when DIXIE let go with rounds of five-inch shells on a railway installations at Kosong, Korea where she completely destroyed a warehouse full of explosive materials and devastated other industrial targets. She visited Pusan, Korea (4-5 February) and was relieved of duty in the Far East by tender PRAIRIE on the 5th when she departed for return to the United States. She reached San Diego on 20 February 1951 and again served as Flagship of Cruiser-Destroyer Forces of the Pacific Fleet as she Continued tender duties in that port. A second cruise was made to the Far East in support of the United Nations Forces in Korea, (21 January-14 August 1952) and she sailed from San Diego on 17 February 1953 for a third cruise from which she returned to San Diego on 17 October 1953. During her service for the United Nations Forces in Korea, she repaired a total of 226 warships representing seven nations. She also rendered medical and dental attention, supplies and provisions, ammunition and disbursing facilities, as well as numerous other services to these and other ships returning from combat patrols and missions along the Korean coast.