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1071st Engineer Port Repair Ship Crew, in front of ship, Junior N. Van Noy. Undated photo, likely 1944. - On 10 August the engineers working on the Cherbourg quays saw a new kind of ship steaming into the harbor. She was the Junior N. Van Noy, the first engineer port repair ship sent overseas. A converted Great Lakes steamer displacing only 3,000 tons, the ship had machine shops, storage bins, and heavy salvage equipment aboard. Her decks bristled with derricks and booms for lifting sunken ships and other debris. Manning the ship was the sixty-member 1071st Engineer Port |
| Date | likely 1944 |
| Source | The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Germany |
| Author | Center for Military History, USA, Publisher |
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