Vietnam War Service
From 25 August to 2 September 1954 she made five trips in support of "Operation Passage to Freedom", the evacuation of refugees from North Vietnam. Subsequently she performed her logistics services for the fleet in the western Pacific, with only brief interludes as in May through July 1957 when she transported an Air Force team which was surveying the habitability of prospective stations in the Sulu Sea.
Note: The year of the Sulu Sea Operation appears to be incorrect (unless there were two). I participated in that operation and I left the ship in July 1956. During the 1956 operation her crew also performed reconnaissance of strategic access features which earned the ship a Letter of Commendation from the Chief of Naval Operations.
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