Japan Surrenders
As the Japanese Empire prepared to surrender, Jacob Jones departed the Destroyer Base, San Diego, California, 9 August 1945 for Pearl Harbor. She reached Pearl 16 August and commenced ASW exercises before embarking 108 passengers 4 September, they sailed for the West Coast. She arrived San Pedro, California, and discharged her passengers 10 September. Departing for the Panama Canal Zone 2 days later, she transited the Canal on the 20th and arrived Charleston, South Carolina, 25 September.
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“I do not know that the United States can save civilization but at least by our example we can make people think and give them the opportunity of saving themselves. The trouble is that the people of Germany, Italy and Japan are not given the privilege of thinking.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)