USS Thomas Stone (APA-29) was a President Jackson-class attack transport that served with the United States Navy (USN) during World War II.

She disembarked her troops and then combat loaded men and equipment of the 9th Infantry Division for amphibious exercises off the coast of Scotland before getting underway for the River Clyde on the 26th to participate in Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa.

Reschke) den US-Transporter Thomas Stone (9255 BRT), der später vor Algier auf Strand gesetzt wird.aAt 0535, a torpedo hit the Thomas Stone's port side, aft, near the engine room, blowing a hole in her bottom, breaking her propeller shaft, and bending her propeller and her rudder to starboard.

The convoy continued on, leaving Thomas Stone behind, adrift some 150 miles from Algiers, guarded by British corvette HMS Spey.

A documentary filmmaker and son of a Thomas Stone crew member has claimed the torpedo was not launched by the U-205, but instead was dropped during an air attack by aircraft of Kampfgeschwader 26.

Bennehoff and Major Walter M. Oakes, USA – who commanded the battalion landing team embarked in Thomas Stone – were not content to let the transport's troops drift aimlessly in the Mediterranean while others took Algiers.

Despite bad weather and the twisted remnants of the Thomas Stone's rudder which made her all but unmanageable, the group of ships finally reached Algiers on the 11th and moored to the Quai de Falaise where she discharged the remaining troops and equipment.

An air-raid on the night of 24 and 25 November caused additional damage to Thomas Stone when a bomb pierced two decks, the hull, and exploded beneath her.