In contrast, an attempt was made to sail USS Dallas, a vintage destroyer carrying seventy-five specially trained assault troops, six miles up
Port Lyautey's Wadi Sebou waterway to carry out an attack on a critically important all-weather airfield.
Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory scrutinizes the operation's five landings (
Port Lyautey, Fedala, and Safi in Morocco, and Oran and Algiers in Algeria), as well as air and ground actions.
After a short layover I was loaded on a train resurrected from World War I, called a 40-and-8, meaning 40 men or 8 horses in a boxcar, on my way to
Port Lyautey, French Morocco, on the Atlantic coast.
During his career, he served at Naval Receiving Station, Treasure Island, San Francisco; USS Thomas Jefferson (APA30); Naval Supply Depot, Clearfield, Utah; Naval Air Facility,
Port Lyautey, French Morocco; Navy Finance Center, Cleveland, Ohio; USS Calvert (APA32); Office of the Comptroller of the Navy, Washington, D.C.; Military Assistance Advisory Group, the Hague, Netherlands; Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, D.C.; Headquarters, Defense Supply Agency, Alexandria, Va.; and Naval Supply Center, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
During the Korean War, Mark was stationed at the US Naval Air Station,
Port Lyautey, Morocco.
VQ-2 was commissioned on 1 September 1955 as Electronic Countermeasures Squadron (ECMRON) 2 and was originally homeported at NAS
Port Lyautey, Morocco.