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1291:(FRAM) overhaul. Her crew lived on board the barracks ship APL-4 while the dock landing ship underwent a thorough reconditioning. She received new mess facilities, modern communications equipment, and much needed maintenance to her engineering spaces, hull, and well-deck. With the overhaul completed in late December, the ship returned to Long Beach on the 29th.
657:. Two days later, at dawn on the 24th, the dock landing ship arrived off White Beach 2. The ship ballasted down, flooding her well-deck, and lowered her stern gate to launch the tank-carrying landing craft. The operation passed without incident until one LCM's ramp dropped as it went over the sill and it quickly filled with water. Fast work by
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1432:. Although the immediate crisis passed by 28 October, the ship steamed with elements of Task Group 128 (TG 128) for another three weeks as the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba was confirmed. She departed the West Indies on 2 December and arrived at Long Beach on the 15th in time to enjoy the holiday season in port.
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in June and July before turning toward the New
Hebrides on 9 August. She reached Espiritu Santo on the 14th and began loading more landing craft. The next day, however, the end of hostilities with Japan interrupted this task. Instead, after departing Espirito Santo on 27 August, the dock landing ship
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resumed unloading cargo late on the 25th. She went to Saipan again in the evening, loaded a third cargo of LCMs, and returned to Tinian the next morning. During the ensuing unloading operation, rough seas caused a water surge in the well deck that slammed several landing craft against the cargo deck.
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got underway for home on the 28th, stopped at Pearl Harbor on 9 and 10 March, and arrived at Long Beach on 19 March. Leave and upkeep lasted until 10 April when the ship began an overhaul at the Long Beach Naval
Shipyard. After repairs ended on 14 July, the ship spent the next four months conducting
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made two more deployments to the western
Pacific. There, she operated with 7th Fleet units in the familiar waters off Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. In mid-1960, after returning to the West Coast following her third postwar assignment in the Orient, she began an overhaul at the Todd Shipyard at San
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resumed the familiar role of transport and "mother" ship to a boat pool of 26 small craft. In addition, before each test, the ship evacuated people and boats from the test sites. Following each test, she quickly returned to the lagoon to enable LCM decontamination and recovery operations to proceed
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for rest and recreation before streaming the "Homeward Bound" pennant on 6 December. After refueling stops at Samar and
Eniwetok, the LSD reached San Diego on New Year's Day 1946. The ship then underwent a preservation overhaul before being decommissioned on 30 August 1946. She was berthed with the
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detonations off
Johnston Island, before assisting in roll-up activities at Eniwetok into early September. The ship returned to Long Beach on the 23rd and then limited her activities to local operations for the balance of the year. She was in dry dock at Hunter's Point in San Francisco Bay October
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disembarked the marines and the LVTs, and sent them shoreward without mishap. As intense fighting continued ashore for several weeks, the dock landing ship served as a floating "garage" to service and fuel the numerous landing craft needed to shuttle vital reinforcements and supplies to the
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and other cargo among the atolls and
Johnston Island in support of boat pool activities. On 10 June, following the first 14 nuclear tests, the ship steamed to Pearl Harbor for upkeep before returning for a second tour of duty in mid-July. She assisted in six more surface tests and in two
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served as a small craft control and "drydock" vessel in the transport area. She repaired landing craft damaged by both
Japanese gunfire and the heavy surf of Iwo Jima's beaches. The ship remained off the island for a month, repairing 199 small craft of all types, before steaming for the
1661:, for an availability that lasted until the 27th. After a brief return to Long Beach, the ship steamed for Pearl Harbor on 30 January. Arriving at Oahu on 7 February, the dock landing ship moored at the naval ammunition depot where she loaded dynamite and other explosives for the
1562:, Japan; Okinawa; and Subic Bay, Philippines. She also delivered the bulk-fuel system for the base at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam. Heading home in December, the ship suffered a delay in Pearl Harbor owing to boiler problems but finally arrived at Long Beach on 10 January 1967.
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long-range bomber threat had accelerated air defense and early warning system construction in Alaska, and the dock landing ship received another resupply mission to those Arctic outposts. Over the next five months, she shuttled between
Seattle and the Alaskan ports of
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1247:; Hong Kong; and Okinawa. High tensions with China marked this cruise, especially since the communists threatened Formosa with invasion at this time, but no incidents occurred and the ship departed for home on 8 September. She arrived at Long Beach, via Eniwetok,
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helicopters and related equipment for transportation to Da Nang. These she transported in two trips, making the first delivery on 22 December and the second on 2 January 1968. In both cases, a lack of pier space inspired the crew to demonstrate
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Departing Vung Tau for the last time on 14 August, she reached
Buckner Bay on the 17th, pushed on for Yokosuka the following afternoon, and moored there on the 21st. Five days later, the ship departed Japanese waters and arrived at
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for another modernization overhaul to repair her aging hull, piping systems, and cabling. Returning to Long Beach in mid-October, she conducted refresher training and local operations into the following spring. On 19 April 1965,
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sailed for home and, after stopping briefly at Pearl Harbor on the 26th, moored at San Diego on 3 June. Following three months of upkeep and training, the ship got underway for the central
Pacific on 26 September. Arriving at
1103:, through mid-September 1953. Departing Seattle on 22 September, she reached San Diego on the 26th, and remained there into the following year undergoing repairs and receiving the modifications necessary for operations in a
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The aftermost LCMs dropped their ramps and filled with water, sinking in the well deck. Salvage work quickly restored the craft to service, however, and the unloading continued without incident. Later that afternoon,
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1480:, a series of coastal patrols designed to interdict communist waterborne logistics routes into South Vietnam. Returning home 29 November, she spent only six weeks in leave and upkeep before heading back to Vietnam.
1448:, and Hong Kong before anchoring in Subic Bay as standby LSD for TG 76.5 in December. A faulty boiler, however, kept her in port for repairs until 1 February 1964, when she resumed operations with 7th Fleet.
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to Vietnam. The ship then supported the recent marine deployment to Da Nang by serving as a boat haven in that city's harbor. In addition, she provided repair facilities to inshore coastal vessels engaged in
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commenced her first postwar deployment to the Far East when she stood out of Long Beach on 12 January 1956. The dock landing ship reached Yokosuka on 3 February, and over the next seven months, operated with
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After arriving at Pearl Harbor in mid-August, the dock landing ship received a badly needed hull cleaning and other voyage repairs. Following amphibious exercises off Maui in the first week of September,
1577:, Hawaii. On 11 August, the ship once again headed to Vietnam. After unloading equipment at Subic Bay on the 27th, the dock landing ship received orders to Da Nang on 5 September. There, she relieved
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for an overhaul and remained there until 27 April. Following a short period of refresher training, the ship departed Long Beach for Seattle on 9 May. Intelligence suggesting an increase in the
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For the next month, the ship conducted further equipment deliveries – between Subic Bay, Manila, and Cam Ranh Bay – before steaming to Yokosuka on 8 February. Following upkeep and inspection,
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without incident later that morning. In company with Transport Division 20 (TransDiv 20), the ship cleared the island group that evening, returning to Pearl Harbor on 2 December.
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reconnaissance flight, initially described as "a milk run", detected the presence of offensive nuclear weapon sites on Cuba and prompted President John F. Kennedy to order a naval "
1596:, at the conclusion of which she returned to the Philippines before heading for Sasebo on 3 December. The next day she was diverted to assist a grounded Japanese fishing boat, the
1063:, Cuba, the ship headed for Panama in mid-April. She transited the canal on 20 April and reached San Diego on 1 May. Three days later, she put to sea for Operation "Barchange", an
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conducted local operations off the West Coast. On 17 September 1963, the dock landing ship sailed from Long Beach for her fifth Far East deployment. She visited Hawaii, Yokosuka,
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Pedro, California Departing that yard on 11 January 1961, the dock landing ship conducted post-overhaul refresher training and local operations out of Long Beach into the summer.
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on 3 October, the ship again replenished stores and fuel while both crew and troops went ashore for exercise and recreation. Underway again on the 14th, she set a course for the
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conducted refresher and amphibious training in the waters off California. She broke this routine only twice, once in March and again in April, to participate in exercises near
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She remained there until 3 June, undergoing repairs and alterations, while a large proportion of her crew were discharged or reassigned. After taking on their replacements,
1696:, Hong Kong, and Sasebo. When in Vietnamese waters, the ship often put into effect the "exposed anchorage and antiswimmer watch" to foil any Viet Cong attempts to attach
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departed Norfolk for her first tour of duty with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. During the course of her deployment, as part of TransDiv 33, the ship visited
1262:, a 35-detonation series of nuclear tests held at Eniwetok, Bikini, and Johnston Island. After she arrived at Eniwetok on 20 April, her activities involved shuttling
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1315:(SEATO) exercise held in the Philippines and designed to deter communist aggression in the region. In May, continued political friction between the communist
1211:"skin-boat" to cross the harbor to board ship. Returning to Long Beach on 2 October, she spent a short time in the shipyard to repair damage sustained in the
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on 6 October, she spent the next two weeks shuttling supplies and equipment among the Marshalls before sailing for Guam. From there, the ship proceeded to
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before putting into Okinawa. There, she joined TF 76, 7th Fleet's amphibious force, and began carrying troops and equipment throughout the Far East.
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that same day. She was placed in the Inactive Ship Facility, San Diego, where she remained into 1970. That summer she was sold to N. W. Kennedy of
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sailed for another Pacific deployment on 15 February. During the first three months of the deployment, she shuttled marines and their equipment between
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was recommissioned at San Diego on 27 December 1950. Upon completion of her shakedown training, she departed San Diego on 16 April 1951, transited the
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and well-deck to dock and repair 163 landing craft of all types. Finally released for other duty, the ship embarked replacements for veteran troops in
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891:, which struck Okinawa in early October, many other ships and small craft suffered severe damage from that storm. The dock landing ship remained in
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steamed for the Philippines that same day. After delivering cargo to Subic Bay the ship returned home, via Yokosuka and Pearl Harbor, on 28 May.
1207:. At one point, just before a change of command ceremony, the ship encountered such severe ice conditions that the new captain had to utilize an
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and DUKWs in the rendezvous area. Despite considerable air activity, the dock landing ship remained unscathed and, after a week of operations at
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on 15 July to load 9,500 rounds of 75-millimeter tank ammunition. Two days later, she received 2,215 five-gallon (20 L) cans of water from
1720:, on 11 September. Slated for inactivation, the dock landing ship unloaded all her ammunition before shifting to Long Beach the following day.
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619:. She also replaced her own boats with these more efficient landing craft. The ship sailed with TransDiv 26 in early June and arrived off
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Following a short period of local operations, during which she was transferred to Amphibious Squadron 11 (Phibron 11) on 1 July,
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The outbreak of hostilities in Korea in June 1950 prompted the dock landing ship's return to service. Ordered activated on 7 August 1950,
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herself escaped the attention of the kamikazes and arrived in Lingayen Gulf early on the 9th. She then anchored and began discharging her
1055:, for repairs and alterations. During that overhaul, which lasted until 26 March, she received word of her impending reassignment to the
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Local operations along the coast of southern California occupied her time throughout 1957 and the first few months of 1958. On 1 April,
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1401:, Thailand, before completing this task in early August. After dropping off marines at Subic Bay and Buckner Bay, the ship stopped at
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and, the next day, joined TG 76.4 at sea. Over the next ten weeks, the LSD took part in three amphibious assaults in support of
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until 22 October when, partly owing to the threat from Japanese surface forces, she departed the area. The dock landing ship reached
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operations. The ship launched combat loaded LVTs, refueled and maintained helicopters, and provided base support for troops of the
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on the 27th and loaded supplies for a return trip to Leyte. Over the next month, she made four more supply runs shuttling from
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s versatility by assembling the crated helicopters in her well-deck and flying them off while she lay anchored in the harbor.
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ice pack but soon resumed the underway training off southern California that occupied her time for the remainder of the year.
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commenced unloading explosives and other test equipment. Departing the atoll for Guam late that afternoon, the ship put into
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embarked 20 LCMs, heavy equipment, and Army troops, before sailing on 15 September with TransDiv 28. She paused at
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fired at the latter's attackers and claimed hits "though not sufficient to divert the plane and prevent its crash-dive on
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shuttled men and material between Da Nang, Vung Tau, Subic Bay and Okinawa, punctuating those lifts with short visits to
1500:, South Vietnam, on 10 January 1966. Arriving in that port on 5 February, the ship spent the next two months maintaining
1428:, in company with three other dock landing ships, transited the Panama Canal on 5 November and took up station south of
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received orders to transport landing craft from the Marshalls and the Marianas to the Philippines. She made two runs to
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from the beach came alongside to receive tank ammunition and water, then the ship returned to Saipan. On 28 July, after
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delivered another cargo of water and ammunition to Tinian, she formed up with TransDiv 7 and began the voyage to
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strikes, lasted from 26 March to 4 April. In mid-April, she coordinated the first PBR and helicopter patrols on the
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required in an amphibious operation. These duties lasted until 8 February when she got underway for Pearl Harbor.
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beachhead. Shortages of repair force ratings and machine shop equipment, however, did hamper her repair efforts.
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1516:. She also served as a command center that coordinated Navy riverine patrols and Army helicopter sweeps against
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on the morning of the 9th, the ship reached her destination on the 11th and worked cargo until sailing for the
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In mid-July, after a period of local operations, the ship moved to Seattle, Washington, where she entered the
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to her hull. This sometimes included the use of an armed picket boat patrolling around the ship and tossing
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refresher training and underway exercises out of San Diego. On 9 October she sailed for a port visit to
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1416:'s delivery of military assistance to that island, had broken out into a severe crisis on 14 October. A
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on 21 October 1943. Upon arrival, the dock landing ship conducted several rehearsals for the upcoming
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for minor repairs before departing for home on 23 August. She arrived at Long Beach on 11 September.
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on 7 February, loaded equipment, and shifted to Saipan the following day. She loaded LCMs laden with
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on 20 October, ballasted down early that morning, and discharged her tank-loaded LCMs as part of the
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at Camp Del Mar. The gradual rise in tension between the United States and Cuba, exacerbated by the
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in the Philippines, delivered cargo, and then set sail for home on the 30th. Steaming via Eniwetok,
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s deck crew saved both the LCM and its valuable cargo, and the rest of the landing went smoothly.
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on 4 May. The LSD participated in several amphibious exercises that summer before proceeding to
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tanks before sailing for Iwo Jima on the 16th. After unloading her cargo on 19 and 20 February,
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also shuttled troops and equipment between Norfolk, Morehead City, and Vieques. She stopped at
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underwent repairs and alterations at that base before taking part in amphibious rehearsals at
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transported cargo between Da Nang and Vung Tau, both in South Vietnam; Sasebo, Yokosuka, and
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sailed for another Far East tour on 1 September. On 24 September, she successfully weathered
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departed Long Beach for the central Pacific. She spent the next five months participating in
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moved to Long Beach where she spent the remainder of the year conducting local operations.
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supply mission to support the embryonic continental defense systems being constructed in
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to deliver a cargo of landing craft. The ship also carried troops and equipment between
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from 25 to 28 September to replenish stores and fuel before getting underway for the
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for transport back to San Diego. After unloading the sailing vessels on 1 November,
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on the 23rd but departed again that same day and arrived at Subic Bay on the 28th.
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from its hinges, the LSD delivered the cargo to that island. After returning to
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and then visited Okinawa and Japan before returning to Long Beach on 6 April.
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in the water. Her only amphibious operation took place in early August, when
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headed westw for service in South Vietnam. She transported a portion of the
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governments, began when an attack carrier group steamed into position off
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was decommissioned on 12 November 1969, and her name was struck from the
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atolls in the Marshall Islands. Arriving at Bikini Atoll on 19 January,
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abated, and the ship received orders to help remove the Marines of the
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to load equipment and supplies before sailing for the
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to Leyte, before loading three tank landing craft at
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supported this contingency operation by lifting the
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872:carried passengers and cargo to Hollandia, then to
1524:. Those attacks, carried out in conjunction with
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968:until 5 November. After additional training off
1035:, on 1 and 2 December, before returning to her
1708:helped shift marines and their equipment from
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1299:Following refresher training in January 1962,
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1023:into September. Ranging farther afield,
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767:air attacks on nearby ships, witnessing
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1746:service and eight battle stars for
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2177:Ships built in Oakland, California
1313:Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
1287:sailed for Portland, Oreg., and a
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633:occupation of nearby Tinian Island
617:534th Amphibious Tractor Battalion
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141:Sold for scrap, 24 July 1970
1916:"USS BELLE GROVE - LOGBOOK"
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1565:For the next eight months,
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1635:U.S. Olympic yachting team
1512:"Huey" helicopters in the
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1053:Charleston, South Carolina
507:seizure of Kwajalein Atoll
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16:United States Naval Vessel
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1319:and rightist factions in
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1129:thermonuclear detonations
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1510:UH-1B
1343:. An
1209:Inuit
985:Crete
981:Italy
901:China
869:Samar
804:Abuyo
721:Leyte
679:DUKWs
613:LVTAs
370:20 mm
368:16 ×
362:guns;
358:quad
356:40 mm
307:41 ×
298:47 ×
278:14 ×
227:Range
219:Speed
182:Draft
130:Motto
72:, in
2119:None
2102:(ex-
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1908:2008
1889:2008
1865:2008
1840:2021
1802:2008
1742:for
1645:1969
1606:Naha
1573:and
1526:B-52
1357:and
1321:Laos
1295:1962
1264:LCUs
1189:Nome
1118:and
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960:and
874:Biak
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824:and
806:and
800:LCTs
777:and
755:1945
611:and
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590:Oahu
495:Army
491:Maui
478:1944
472:LCMs
381:USS
354:2 ×
351:gun;
344:1 ×
300:DUKW
253:3 ×
234:nmi.
174:Beam
138:Fate
58:USS
55:Name
1506:PBR
1502:LCM
1418:U-2
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497:'s
309:LVT
280:LCM
255:LCT
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