Inter-war Service
Yukon served briefly as a unit of the Train, Pacific Fleet; however, on 14 April 1922, she was decommissioned and placed in reserve at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She remained there until late 1939, when she was moved to New York for a partial conversion and preparations for her return to active service. Yukon was recommissioned at Brooklyn, New York on 19 January 1940, Cdr. Mays L. Lewis in command.
Read more about this topic: USS Yukon (AF-9)
Famous quotes containing the word service:
“Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)