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on 19 February. She then sent her boats to assist the transports during the initial assault. The attack cargo ship remained in the area through the 27th discharging troops and cargo and taking casualties on board during the day and retiring out to sea each night.
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to learn of the effects of atomic bomb explosions upon warships. This assignment occupied the cargo ship through mid-August when she returned to Pearl Harbor and resumed local operations.
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to take on pontoon equipment and carried this cargo to Pearl Harbor. While in Hawaii, she participated in a series of training exercises held off Pearl Harbor. On 5 December,
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Maritime Administration on 1 April 1948 and was laid up in the
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on 3 November and unloaded her passengers. One day later, she left
Hawaiian waters to return to California. On 13 November, the ship arrived at
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in the James River. On 16 August 1966, she was sold to the Union
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Hawaiian waters to return to the west coast. Once again, cargo was taken on at Port Hueneme, and the ship proceeded back to Hawaii, and
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