Talk:USS Wakefield (AP-21)

My interest in seeing the Wakefield's story on Citizenium is because my dad served on this ship during WW II. Herbert Mahan, joined the Wakefield crew while it was undergoing it's conversion from the US Manhattan, which had been a high speed transatlantic liner previously. Dad would continue to serve on the Wakefield until the end of the war except for a period of time after a fire disabled the Wakefield in 1942. He returned to the Wakefield when it was rebuild after a fire that almost destroyed it, He continued to serve on it until the end of the war. New York was where the Wakefield would dock between voyages. My mother moved got a job there and moved there after they were married so she could see Dad between voyages. The Wakefield had made a large number of trips back and forth from Europe bringing home US soldiers and taking back German and Italian POWs. This is a list of the ports visited by Wakefield when my dad was on the ship

Halifax, Nova Scotia Cape Town, South Africa Keppel Harbor, Singapore Colombo, Ceylon Bombay, India Crisabol, Panama Panama Canal Wellington, New Zealand River Clyde, Scotland New York Philadelphia Boston Norfork Liverpool, England Naples, Italy Marseille, France Toulon, France Oran, Algeria Tartano, Italy Le Harve, France Cherbourg, France