Special Indo-China Operations
During 1954 her home port was changed from Mare Island to Pearl Harbor. She arrived Sasebo, Japan 17 June for operations in the Far East. While there, Karin was assigned to special duty in Indochina and from 25 August to mid October participated in Operation Passage to Freedom. During this period more than 100,000 Vietnamese men, women, and children were evacuated from the Communist dominated North to the free world in the south. Karin assisted this gigantic population transfer by supplying many ships with fresh and frozen foods while providing the Vietnamese with rice and small essentials.
Karin returned Pearl Harbor 10 November to prepare for her regular duties. From 1955 to 1958 she made 18 cruises to the mid-Pacific with provisions and supplies.
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