Delivering Troops To Okinawa
Steaming in convoy via Eniwetok and Ulithi, Mintaka reached Okinawa 21 May and began debarking troops Rule unloading cargo. Despite periodic Japanese air attacks, she continued off-loading operations during the next week. On 25 May her gunners splashed an enemy plane during an assault which damaged a nearby merchant ship. Mintaka sailed 31 May, touched at Ulithi 6 June, Pearl Harbor the 23d, and arrived San Francisco 3 July.
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