USS Rochambeau (AP-63)
USS ''Rochambeau'' (AP-63) was a Troopship, transport ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only U.S. Naval vessel to be named for the French nobleman, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725–1807), who commanded the French troops in George Washington, Washington's army during the American Revolutionary War. History French ownership ''Rochambeau'' was originally built as ''Maréchal Joffre'' in 1931 by the Société Provençale de Constructions Navales of La Ciotat, France for the Société des Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes. Manned by Vichy French Forces after the Battle of France, fall of France in 1940, ''Maréchal Joffre'' was in the Philippines when the United States entered World War II. She was taken over by a crew of downed US Navy fliers from Patrol Wing 10 and with the help of some of the French sailors who were not supportive of the Vichy government sailed on the 18th for Balikpapan, whenc ...
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