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705:, on 4 December. She was overhauled there at the Albina Shipards during December and the first two months of 1945. She completed repairs and departed Portland on 4 March, bound for refresher and minesweeping training along the coast of
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escaped the air raids with little or no damage, and her crew suffered only one casualty. On 28 October, she stood out of Leyte Gulf on her way back to Manus. The minesweeper entered
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but participated in some engagements with enemy land-based aircraft. One particularly intense air attack came on 25 October when
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sighted several enemy planes; but the attack on the 18th remained her only close contact with the enemy until after she completed her minesweeping chores on 23 October and moved farther into the gulf near
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conducted U.S. West Coast operations until she was decommissioned the following summer on 6 July 1956. She remained with the
Pacific Reserve Fleet for just over a decade. Her name was struck from the
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on the morning of 15 September, and spent the next two days sweeping the approaches to the invasion beaches. The sweeps of Angaur, however, netted her no mines. On 17 September, she moved north to
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Formosa and the
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Pacific which by that time were becoming increasingly more of a rear area. She also conducted
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Pacific. After a stop at Pearl Harbor late in May,
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four battle stars during World War II and an additional four for her postwar minesweeping service. During the Korean War, she earned one battle star
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finally succeeded in fulfilling the mission for which she had originally been built, sweeping eight mines during the anchorage clearing operation.
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and drew the combined fire of her 3-inch and ] batteries. A few seconds later, that intruder burst into flames and splashed into the sea.
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assault beaches on schedule. The storm, however, reached the typhoon stage at that point and forced her to retire from the area.
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960:, Japan, as well as at
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185:General characteristics
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