World War II Service
Laden with oil products, Chestatee cleared Baytown, Texas, 14 January 1945 for San Pedro Bay, Leyte, where she arrived 1 March for duty transporting high-octane gasoline among the Philippine Islands.
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Famous quotes containing the words world, war and/or service:
“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
“We too are ashes as we watch and hear
The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise
Of one whose promised thoughts of other days
Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed,
The service record of his youth wiped out,
His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)