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On August 13th, the USS General G. O. Squier joins Task Force 87 for Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France.  Their job is to take over 4,000 Army Troops and land them on the beaches [...]

On July 6th, 1944 while at sea, the battle station alarm is sounded as the ship believes it may be near an enemy submarine. The threat is determined to only be a whale!

Ship passes through Gibraltar on July 12th and arrives and anchors off of the Bay of Naples, Italy on July 15th, 1944.  For the next month, the USS General G. O. Squier would make runs between [...]

USS General G. O. Squier Leaves Norfolk with nearly 4,000 U.S. Army personnel and heads East to take them to the war in Europe.

After he UtSS General G. O. Squier arrives in Norfolk, Virginia, James is granted one week’s leave and heads home to visit his family in Omaha, Nebraska.  Pictured is the address he gave [...]

While in route to Virginia, James is promoted from Seaman 2nd Class (S2c) to Seaman 1st Class (S1c).

In May 1944, after their third troop transport, the USS General G. O. Squier is reassigned to the European Theater in preparation for D-Day in France.  They travel through the Panama Canal on May [...]

From November 1943 through April of 1944, the USS General G. O. Squier makes three round-trip troop transports from San Francisco to Port Noumea in New Caledonia.  During these trips, they also [...]

Army Private Charles Bitsko died while aboard the USS General G. O. Squier when a cargo boom hold gave way, striking him on the head.   Bitsko was a member of the Army working detail handling [...]

The first transport is loaded on the ship, including 3,670 enlisted men of the U.S. Army.  They passed under the Golden Gate Bridge at noon and reached international waters by 1:00pm. They are [...]