Return To Peacetime Service
Mendota returned home to her homeport of Wilmington, NC, on 27 November 1969. During her mission to Vietnam and back Mendota steamed over 60,000 miles (97,000 km). She transited the Panama Canal in both directions, and visited Hawaii, Guam, Bangkok, Thailand, Kaohsiung, Formosa, and Subic Bay in the Republic of the Philippines.
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