Supporting The Okinawa Invasion
Wharton next participated in the operations against Okinawa, arriving offshore on 19 May. The transport soon disembarked 2,118 troops (including 30 Army nurses) in LCM's sent from shore, as Wharton ordinarily carried no landing craft of her own. Several times, the ship went to general quarters and was screened by smoke, but she emerged from the campaign unscathed by kamikazes that had taken such a dreadful toll from American ships. On 22 May, the transport departed for the Caroline Islands, with 273 troops and 29 casualties embarked, and arrived at Ulithi on the 28th.
Wharton took part in no further combat operations and returned home — via Seeadler Harbor, Guadalcanal, Espiritu Santo, Nouméa, and Suva — to San Francisco on 25 June. The ship remained there until 3 August, when she moved to Seattle, Washington, before returning to Pearl Harbor.
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