Postwar
In overhaul for two months, she deployed 20 August. Arriving Sasebo 23 September, she participated in landing occupation troops there and at Kure. Returning to the United States 12 February 1946, she sailed in the early summer for Bikini Atoll where she was flagship for Operation Crossroads. Admiral William H. P. Blandy, commanded Joint Task Force 1 during the atomic tests, his flag on the Mount McKinley. Following the atomic bomb test in July, the ship operated out of San Diego for the next 18 months.
In early 1948, she was the command ship for the atomic bomb test at Eniwetok. Upon completion of these tests, she returned to San Diego to resume coastal operations.
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