Hospital Ship 65 After D-Day Normandy June 1944 

Hospital ship

USS Iowa (BB-61) entering floating drydock ABSD-2 for temporary repairs, Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 28 Dec 1944
Floating drydock USS ABSD-2 was a non-powered naval vessel designed to be able to deployed, with relative speed, to combat zones for ship repair operations, thus saving the time necessary to transport a damaged ship back to the continental United States.

USS Iowa

Ships Scuttled off D-Day’s Omaha Beach 