World War II Service
Following shakedown exercises along the U.S. Gulf Coast, Maquoketa took on aviation gas, diesel oil and lube oil at Houston, Texas, and departed for the Pacific Ocean, 28 March 1945. She arrived in the Marshall Islands 23 May and immediately began discharging her cargo into the waiting ships.
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