World War II Service
Upon completing shakedown along the Virginia coast, LST–1067 sailed to Davisville, Rhode Island to load materials of war. Departing 16 May 1945 she steamed via the Panama Canal first to Pearl Harbor and then, with additional cargo, to Guam arriving 19 July. A second logistic voyage from the Hawaiian Islands to the Marianas occurred in the immediate aftermath of the Japanese surrender. She then embarked occupation forces at Leyte and landed them on Honshū, Japan, 2 November. Turning eastward for the long trip to the United States, LST–1067 arrived at San Francisco on 6 January 1946 and decommissioned at Portland, Oregon on 13 August 1946.
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