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USS Ancon returned to Portland https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/ancon-usa/225-uss-ancon-returned-to-portland.html

US Navy Operation Neptune 1944-06-06 Coast of Normandy

After two weeks in that Sicilian port, Ancon shaped a course for Algiers. She reached that port on 2 October and spent almost six weeks undergoing repairs and replenishment.

In mid-November, she set sail for the United Kingdom and, on 25 November, arrived in Devonport, England, where she was designated the flagship of the 11th Amphibious Force.

An extended period of repairs and preparations for the impending invasion of France kept Ancon occupied through the winter and much of the spring participating in numerous training exercises with other Allied warships.

On 25 May, King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery visited the ship. The preparations culminated on 5 June, when Ancon got underway for Baie de la Seine, France.

She served as flagship for the assault forces that landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy. Throughout the invasion, the ship provided instructions for forces both afloat and ashore.

She transferred various units of the Army command to headquarters ashore and made her small boats available to other ships to carry personnel and materials to the beachhead. On 27 June, she got underway to return to England and, the next day, arrived at Portland.

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fredvogels Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:34:04 +0100 https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/ancon-usa/225-uss-ancon-returned-to-portland.html
USS Ancon arrived in Devonport https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/ancon-usa/100712-uss-ancon-arrived-in-devonport.html

US Navy Operation Neptune 1944-06-06 Coast of Normandy

After two weeks in that Sicilian port, Ancon shaped a course for Algiers. She reached that port on 2 October and spent almost six weeks undergoing repairs and replenishment.

In mid-November, she set sail for the United Kingdom and, on 25 November, arrived in Devonport, England, where she was designated the flagship of the 11th Amphibious Force.

An extended period of repairs and preparations for the impending invasion of France kept Ancon occupied through the winter and much of the spring participating in numerous training exercises with other Allied warships.

On 25 May, King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery visited the ship. The preparations culminated on 5 June, when Ancon got underway for Baie de la Seine, France.

She served as flagship for the assault forces that landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy. Throughout the invasion, the ship provided instructions for forces both afloat and ashore.

She transferred various units of the Army command to headquarters ashore and made her small boats available to other ships to carry personnel and materials to the beachhead. On 27 June, she got underway to return to England and, the next day, arrived at Portland.

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fredvogels Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:28:41 +0100 https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/ancon-usa/100712-uss-ancon-arrived-in-devonport.html
Anchor point before D-Day, position 192 in area 5 in The Solent for: Bulolo (UK) https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/bulolo-uk/112216-solent192.html

Position-number 192 and name/type of the ship(s): Bulolo.
This ship or these ships was/were located in The Solent area 5. For the exact location in this area, please look at the map. Read this little story: during the preparation of D-Day, the ships assembled in The Solent. Every ship was anchored in an area numbered 1-31 (sometimes divided in North or South). Therefore a Plan of Anchorage for the final assembly of all D-Day ships was made. The location was near the Island of Wight, The Solent.
A witness: Robert Millan watched the Allied fleet assemble in the Solent, before D-Day: I was a signalman in the Royal Navy. I was sent with my best mate, a freckle-faced Yorkshire lad called Foley, to the busy signal station in Gosport called Fort Gilkicker, to augment the regular signal staff prior to the invasion of Europe.
The build up was tremendous, a spectacle never to be forgotten. The Solent waters gradually filled up with every type of naval craft, from battleships down to corvettes and motor torpedo boats. Meanwhile with all the constant reading and sending of signals by 10-inch signal lamps, my mate and I were suffering terribly from conjunctivitis. When we complained about the long 24 hours stretch of duty to the chief yeoman in charge of our watch, we were consoled by how lucky we were; that all that lot out there in the Solent (pointing out to the massive gathering of ships) were going to die, while we would survive. So we had to crawl back into our shells and get on with life as it was.
Then it all happened. I was off duty the night of 5th June, and about 9pm noticed a steady stream of naval craft underway, making for the open sea. As daylight dawned, the whole sea area seemed still. Everything had gone, apart from one ship, H.M.S. Alresford, anchored nearby, and an array of small craft, mostly used for ferrying duties. The invasion had begun. It was indeed D-Day, 6th of June 1944.
Source: Frank and Joan Shaw Collection, D-Day Museum

If you have more information about this record, please sent your information to Fred Vogels, webmaster of Back to Normandy.
Thanks to WWII veteran Sapper, PATS and Roy Martin

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fredvogels Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100 https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/bulolo-uk/112216-solent192.html
Anchor point before D-Day, position 192 in area 5 in The Solent for: Bulolo (UK) https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/bulolo-uk/113004-solent979.html

Position-number 192 and name/type of the ship(s): Bulolo.
This ship or these ships was/were located in The Solent area 5. For the exact location in this area, please look at the map. Read this little story: during the preparation of D-Day, the ships assembled in The Solent. Every ship was anchored in an area numbered 1-31 (sometimes divided in North or South). Therefore a Plan of Anchorage for the final assembly of all D-Day ships was made. The location was near the Island of Wight, The Solent.
A witness: Robert Millan watched the Allied fleet assemble in the Solent, before D-Day: I was a signalman in the Royal Navy. I was sent with my best mate, a freckle-faced Yorkshire lad called Foley, to the busy signal station in Gosport called Fort Gilkicker, to augment the regular signal staff prior to the invasion of Europe.
The build up was tremendous, a spectacle never to be forgotten. The Solent waters gradually filled up with every type of naval craft, from battleships down to corvettes and motor torpedo boats. Meanwhile with all the constant reading and sending of signals by 10-inch signal lamps, my mate and I were suffering terribly from conjunctivitis. When we complained about the long 24 hours stretch of duty to the chief yeoman in charge of our watch, we were consoled by how lucky we were; that all that lot out there in the Solent (pointing out to the massive gathering of ships) were going to die, while we would survive. So we had to crawl back into our shells and get on with life as it was.
Then it all happened. I was off duty the night of 5th June, and about 9pm noticed a steady stream of naval craft underway, making for the open sea. As daylight dawned, the whole sea area seemed still. Everything had gone, apart from one ship, H.M.S. Alresford, anchored nearby, and an array of small craft, mostly used for ferrying duties. The invasion had begun. It was indeed D-Day, 6th of June 1944.
Source: Frank and Joan Shaw Collection, D-Day Museum

If you have more information about this record, please sent your information to Fred Vogels, webmaster of Back to Normandy.
Thanks to WWII veteran Sapper, PATS and Roy Martin

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fredvogels Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100 https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/bulolo-uk/113004-solent979.html
USS Ancon near the Normandy cost https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/ancon-usa/100711-uss-ancon-agc-4.html

US Navy Operation Neptune 1944-06-06 Coast of Normandy

After two weeks in that Sicilian port, Ancon shaped a course for Algiers. She reached that port on 2 October and spent almost six weeks undergoing repairs and replenishment.

In mid-November, she set sail for the United Kingdom and, on 25 November, arrived in Devonport, England, where she was designated the flagship of the 11th Amphibious Force.

An extended period of repairs and preparations for the impending invasion of France kept Ancon occupied through the winter and much of the spring participating in numerous training exercises with other Allied warships.

On 25 May, King George VI of the United Kingdom and Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery visited the ship. The preparations culminated on 5 June, when Ancon got underway for Baie de la Seine, France.

She served as flagship for the assault forces that landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy. Throughout the invasion, the ship provided instructions for forces both afloat and ashore.

She transferred various units of the Army command to headquarters ashore and made her small boats available to other ships to carry personnel and materials to the beachhead. On 27 June, she got underway to return to England and, the next day, arrived at Portland.

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fredvogels Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:53:42 +0100 https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/ancon-usa/100711-uss-ancon-agc-4.html
USS Bayfield (APA-33) https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/bayfield-usa/228-uss-bayfield-apa-33.html

US Navy Operation Neptune 1944-06-06 Coast of Normandy She received orders to New York to embark troops for service in Europe. On 11 February the ship departed New York with a convoy bound for the British Isles and arrived at Glasgow, Scotland on 22 February. From there she moved south to the Isle of Portland, England to await orders. On 11 March Bayfield made the short run to Plymouth and joined a group of amphibious ships that then set course for western Scotland. The ships reached the River Clyde on 14 March and carried out landing exercises there through 21 March in preparation for the European invasion at Normandy.

On 29 March she bore the flag of Commander, Force "U" (Rear Admiral Don Pardee Moon) and served as headquarters for planning the landings on "Utah Beach." She joined with other Normandy-bound ships in practicing a variety of maneuvers and tactical operations during short underway periods until 26 April, when full-scale rehearsals took place through 4 May. Bayfield anchored again at Plymouth on 29 April and on 7 May began embarking troops of the 8th Infantry Regiment (U.S. 4th Infantry Division) and the 87th Chemical Battalion.

By 5 June the invasion force completed all preparations and got underway for the Bay of the Seine. Passing along a swept channel marked by lighted buoys, Bayfield, and the other transports reached their designated positions early on the morning of the 6 June and debarked their troops. After disembarking her troops, Bayfield began service as a supply and hospital ship in addition to continuing her duties as a flagship. Those assignments kept her off the Norman coast while other transports rapidly unloaded troops and cargo and then returned to England. On the 7 June, she shifted to an anchorage five miles off the beach and made smoke that night to protect Utah anchorage from Luftwaffe attacks.

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fredvogels Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:53:42 +0100 https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/bayfield-usa/228-uss-bayfield-apa-33.html
HMS Bulolo (UK) near Gold Beach https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/bulolo-uk/213-hms-bulolo-uk-near-gold-beach.html

Coast of Normandy H.Q. ship for Gold Beach carrying tri-service commanders and staff Longues-sur-Mer battery opened fire at 0605hrs and fired a total of 170 shots throughout the day, forcing the flagship HMS Bulolo to retreat to safer water. nbsp; Read the whole story We were recalled to be sent back to England in time for the second front (D Day). We picked up Lord Mountbatten on the way and dropped him off at Gibralter where he flew home. On D day we landed on Gold beach. We were the first on the beach and we were fighting while other troops were still being landed. We were still there when the specially constructed floating harbour arrived but that only lasted about three weeks being damaged by severe weather. nbsp;

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fredvogels Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:12:00 +0100 https://backtonormandy.org/the-history/navy-operations/ships/headquarters/bulolo-uk/213-hms-bulolo-uk-near-gold-beach.html