World War II Pacific Theatre Operations
Assigned to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the transport departed San Francisco, on 21 July 1945 for a shakedown cruise which took her to San Diego and Los Angeles. She returned to her home port on 16 August – two days after hostilities with Japan ended — and embarked fresh troops to replace war-weary veterans in the Far East. She transited the Golden Gate on 21 August and proceeded via Ulithi to the Philippines. Following stops at San Pedro Bay, Leyte, and Batangas and Manila, Luzon, she headed home and reached San Francisco, early in October.
Then, following a second round-trip voyage to the Philippines, she again got underway from San Francisco, in December, and set course for Nagoya, Japan. This shuttle run ended at Los Angeles, on 3 January 1946. Another voyage to Japan – this time to Yokohama – took her back to Seattle, Washington. Early in March, she sailed from that port with occupation troops and delivered them to Okinawa.
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