Transfer To The Pacific Theater of Operations
The ocean tug operated on the west coast until mid-December and departed from San Francisco, California, on the 15th, bound for Hawaii. She reached Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve 1943 and towed targets in Hawaiian waters until 20 January 1944. On that date, she joined Task Force (TF) 52, the Southern Attack Force of the Joint Expeditionary Force then preparing for Operation Flintlock, the assault on the Marshall Islands.
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