USS Deuel (APA-160) Two 5x7 WWII Antique and 46 similar items

(2) Two Vintage Black and White Photographs, circa World War II. Depicting the USS Deuel (APA-160) ship, and a second photo featuring some of the sailors during shore leave. Photographers, locations and sailors not identified. Reverse sides are blank. Measure approximately 5x7 including white borders. Condition: These are original photographs, not a copy or reproduction. They are in excellent condition aside from tape in corners. Comments: USS Deuel (APA-160) was a Haskell-class attack transport built and used by the US Navy in World War II. She was a Victory ship design, VC2-S-AP5. She was named after Deuel County, Nebraska and Deuel County, South Dakota, United States. Deuel was launched 9 September 1944 by Oregon Shipbuilding Corp., Portland, Oregon, under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. J. Himmelright transferred to the Navy 13 October 1944; and commissioned the same day, Captain D. G. McMillan in command. Deuel sailed from San Diego 25 November 1944, and after training at Pearl Harbor staged at Saipan for the invasion of Iwo Jima. On 19 February 1945 she helped land the 5th Marine Division in the initial assault. She stood off the island for 6 days, embarking casualties for transportation to hospitals at Guam. After replacing her boats at Florida Island, and training at Espiritu Santo, she sailed from Ulithi 4 April to transport support troops to Okinawa where she embarked casualties for transfer to Saipan. From 28 May to 27 August 1945 Deuel operated in the Philippines on transport and training duty. She carried Army troops to Japan for occupation duty in September, then returned to San Pedro Bay, Leyte to embark more troops and a civil administration party which she landed at Kure between 5 and 11 October. Assigned to "Magic Carpet" duty, she carried servicemen from the Pacific home to the west coast until January 1946, then sailed for the east coast where she was placed out of commission 17 May 1946, berthed at Norfolk.