U.S. Army
FS-278 was built for the Army in 1944 by the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp., Whitestone, New York. FS-278 was a Coast Guard-manned Army vessel commissioned at New York on 25 November 1944 departing New York on 17 December 1944, for the Southwest Pacific where she operated at Peleliu, Palawan, etc. during the war. Command transferred to LT D. W. Engle, USCGR on 25 June 1945. From 28 August until 20 September FS-278 transported General Douglas MacArthur's defense planning staff for the Philippine Islands. She was decommissioned 3 October 1945.
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