USS Lyon, the Glossary
USS Lyon (AP-71) was a type C3 ship of the United States Navy which played an extensive role in naval transportation during World War II.[1]
Table of Contents
64 relations: Afrika Korps, Algeria, Algiers, Atlantic Basin Iron Works, Atlantic Ocean, Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun, Brooklyn, Casablanca, Enewetak Atoll, Erwin Rommel, Europe, Fedhala Roads, French protectorate in Morocco, Gela, Guam, Honolulu, Ingalls Shipbuilding, Invasion, Italy, Kamikaze, List of U.S. military vessels named after women, Liverpool, Mary Lyon, Mediterranean Sea, Mers El Kébir, Moore-McCormack, Mount Holyoke College, Naples, New York (state), New York City, Newport News, Virginia, North Africa, Oakland, California, Okinawa Prefecture, Operation Avalanche, Operation Torch, Oran, Pacific Ocean, Pascagoula, Mississippi, Prisoner of war, Safi, Morocco, Saint-Tropez, Salerno, San Francisco, Scotland, Seattle, Service star, Sicily, Transportation Corps, Type C3-class ship, ... Expand index (14 more) »
- Elizabeth C. Stanton-class transports
- Type C3 ships
Afrika Korps
The German Africa Corps (DAK), commonly known as Afrika Korps, was the German expeditionary force in Africa during the North African campaign of World War II.
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Algiers
Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.
Atlantic Basin Iron Works
The Atlantic Basin Iron Works was a ship repair and conversion facility that operated in Brooklyn, New York, from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun
--> The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
Casablanca
Casablanca (lit) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.
Enewetak Atoll
Enewetak Atoll (also spelled Eniwetok Atoll or sometimes Eniewetok; Ānewetak,, or Āne-wātak,; known to the Japanese as Brown Atoll or Brown Island; ブラウン環礁) is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the Pacific Ocean and with its 296 people (as of 2021) forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands.
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Erwin Rommel
Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel (15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Fedhala Roads
Fedhala Roads was a location off the coast of Morocco which during World War II was used by Allied forces as a gathering point for their ships.
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French protectorate in Morocco
The French protectorate in Morocco, also known as French Morocco, was the period of French colonial rule in Morocco that lasted from 1912 to 1956.
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Gela
Gela (Sicilian and; Γέλα) is a city and (municipality) in the Autonomous Region of Sicily, Italy; in terms of area and population, it is the largest municipality on the southern coast of Sicily.
Guam
Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.
Honolulu
Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Ingalls Shipbuilding is a shipyard located in Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States, originally established in 1938, and now part of HII.
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Invasion
An invasion is a military offensive of combatants of one geopolitical entity, usually in large numbers, entering territory controlled by another similar entity.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Kamikaze
, officially, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, intending to destroy warships more effectively than with conventional air attacks.
List of U.S. military vessels named after women
On this list of U.S. military vessels named after women, there are many ships that have seen service with the United States military.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.
Mary Lyon
Mary Mason Lyon (February 28, 1797 – March 5, 1849) was an American pioneer in women's education.
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Mers El Kébir
Mers El Kébir (lit) is a port on the Mediterranean Sea, near Oran in Oran Province, northwest Algeria.
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Moore-McCormack
The Moore-McCormack Lines was a series of companies operating as shipping lines, operated by the Moore-McCormack Company, Incorporated, later Moore-McCormack Lines, Incorporated, and simply Mooremack, founded in 1913 in New York City.
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Mount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.
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Naples
Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.
New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Newport News, Virginia
Newport News is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, United States.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
Oakland, California
Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.
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Okinawa Prefecture
is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.
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Operation Avalanche
Operation Avalanche was the codename for the Allied landings near the port of Salerno, executed on 9 September 1943, part of the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II.
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Operation Torch
Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.
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Oran
Oran (Wahrān) is a major coastal city located in the northwest of Algeria.
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Pascagoula, Mississippi
Pascagoula is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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Safi, Morocco
Safi or Asfi (ʾāsafī) is a city in western Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean.
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Saint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez (Sant Tropetz) is a commune in the Var department and the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Southern France.
Salerno
Salerno (Salierno) is an ancient city and comune (municipality) in Campania, southwestern Italy, and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after Naples.
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
Service star
A service star is a miniature bronze or silver five-pointed star in diameter that is authorized to be worn by members of the eight uniformed services of the United States on medals and ribbons to denote an additional award or service period.
Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Transportation Corps
The Transportation Corps is a combat service support branch of the U.S. Army.
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Type C3-class ship
Type C3-class ships were the third type of cargo ship designed by the United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) in the late 1930s.
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Typhoon
A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least.
U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.
Ulithi
Ulithi (Wulthiy, Yulthiy, or Wugöy; pronounced roughly as YOU-li-thee) is an atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, about east of Yap, within Yap State.
United States Army Air Corps
The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941.
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United States Army Medical Corps
The Medical Corps (MC) of the U.S. Army is a staff corps (non-combat specialty branch) of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) consisting of commissioned medical officers – physicians with either an M.D. or a D.O. degree, at least one year of post-graduate clinical training, and a state medical license.
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United States Department of War
The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.
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United States Maritime Commission
The United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) was an independent executive agency of the U.S. federal government that was created by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, which was passed by Congress on June 29, 1936, and was abolished on May 24, 1950.
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United States Third Fleet
The United States Third Fleet is one of the numbered fleets in the United States Navy.
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W. R. Grace and Company
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War Shipping Administration
The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the United States needed for fighting the war.
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William Halsey Jr.
William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. (October 30, 1882 – August 16, 1959) was an American Navy admiral during World War II.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
1st Infantry Division (United States)
The 1st Infantry Division (1ID) is a combined arms division of the United States Army, and is the oldest continuously serving division in the Regular Army.
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3-inch/50-caliber gun
The 3-inch/50-caliber gun (spoken "three-inch fifty-caliber") in United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile in diameter, and the barrel was 50 calibers long (barrel length is 3 in × 50.
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See also
Elizabeth C. Stanton-class transports
- Elizabeth C. Stanton-class transport
- USS Anne Arundel
- USS Elizabeth C. Stanton
- USS Florence Nightingale
- USS Lyon
Type C3 ships
- SS Aloha State
- SS Sea Marlin
- USS Anne Arundel
- USS Briareus
- USS Delta (AR-9)
- USS Elizabeth C. Stanton
- USS Euryale
- USS Florence Nightingale
- USS Griffin
- USS Hamul
- USS Lyon
- USS Markab
- USS Pelias
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lyon
Also known as SS Mormactide, USS Lyon (AP-71), USS Mary Lyon (AP-71).
, Typhoon, U-boat, Ulithi, United States Army Air Corps, United States Army Medical Corps, United States Department of War, United States Maritime Commission, United States Third Fleet, W. R. Grace and Company, War Shipping Administration, William Halsey Jr., World War II, 1st Infantry Division (United States), 3-inch/50-caliber gun.