Army Service
In June 1941 the US War Department acquired Oriente to be a troopship, and renamed her USAT Thomas H. Barry.
On 29 September 1941 the Acting Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, sent a memorandum to the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, listing a number of Army transports, including Thomas H. Barry, that were to be "eventually taken over by the Navy". Thomas H. Barry was later given the Navy designation AP-45, but was never taken over by the Navy and remained under Army control through the end of World War II.
Thomas H. Barry was declared surplus to US Navy needs, laid up in 1950 in the National Defense Reserve Fleet on the James River, Virginia until 1957, when the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation scrapped her.
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