| May 11 | | Boarded ship at Pittsburgh PA. New ship built by Dravo Corp. [Special crew and Pilot came aboard to take ship down river] |
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| May 12 | | Left Pittsburgh |
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| May 18 | | Arrived in New Orleans LA |
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| May 19 | | Ship commissioned into U.S. Navy |
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| May 25 | 0635 | Underway for St. Andrews Bay FL |
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| May 26 | 1635 | Anchored in St. Andrews Bay |
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| Jun 08 | 1954 | Underway for Gulfport MS |
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| Jun 09 | 1615 | Moored to dock at Gulfport, loaded canned foods on tank deck |
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| Jun 11 | 1247 | Underway for New Orleans |
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| Jun 12 | 1754 | Moored to dock at N.S.D., New Orleans |
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| Jun 23 | 2040 | Underway for Pilot Town LA |
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| Jun 24 | 0310 | Anchored at Pilot Town |
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| 1615 | Underway for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba |
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| Jun 30 | 1045 | Anchored in Guantanamo Bay |
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| Jul 03 | 1500 | Underway for Canal Zone |
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| Jul 07 | 1425 | Moored to pier at Coco Solo Naval Base, Canal Zone |
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| Jul 09 | 0855 | Cleared locks. Enroute Boro Boro, Society Islands. |
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| Jul 29 | | Arrived at Boro Boro about 1800 but could not enter harbor until next morning due to narrow passage and heavy seas. Steamed in circle all night. |
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| Jul 30 | 0915 | Anchored in Teauanui Harbor, Boro Boro |
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| Jul 31 | 1122 | Underway for Noumea, New Caledonia |
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| Aug 13 | 1257 | Moored alongside LST 911 at Noumea |
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| Aug 15 | 0930 | Underway for Manus, Admiralty Islands |
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| Aug 22 | | 1000. Had our first air alert. False report. No action |
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| Aug 23 | | Arrived in Seeadler Harbor, Manus. Unloaded cargo. |
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| Sep 08 | 1600 | Underway for Hollandia, New Guinea |
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| Sep 10 | 0726 | Anchored in Humboldt Bay, Hollandia |
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| 1400 | Moored alongside LST-475 to take on water and fuel. We will take their place in the next operation |
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| Sep 11 | 0700 | Beached to load R.A.A.F. engineers |
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| Sep 13 | 1645 | Underway for Morotai Island |
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| Sep 16 | | Man fell overboard from the ship ahead of us. A shipmate jumped in save him. We lowered boat, of which I was coxswain, and picked them up. |
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| Sep 18 | | D-Day plus 3. Morotai, Island |
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| 0430 | General Quarters |
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| 1009 | Beached on Morotai Island. Two Jap planes came over while we were on beach. The first was a torpedo plane he released a torpedo but missed the second plane was a bomber. He just missed a destroyer that was standing by |
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| 1750 | Underway for Aitape, New Guinea |
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| Sep 23 | 1549 | Beached at Aitape. Loaded R.A.A.F |
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| Sep 25 | 0554 | underway for Morotai |
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| Sep 30 | 1707 | Beached at Morotai |
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| 1505 | Underway for Sansapor, New Guinea. Went to GQ. One Jap plane came over convoy ships in convoy opened fire but plane climbed out of range of our guns. It was our first time to fire on Jap aircraft. |
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| Oct 02 | 0900 | Dropped anchor at Sansapor |
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| Oct 11 | 1200 | Underway for Hollandia loaded with 1881 army engineering |
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| Oct 14 | 0844 | Anchored at Hollandia |
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| Oct 16 | 0521 | Underway for San Pedro Bay, Leyte, Philippines Islands 62 ships in convoy 32 of them L.S.T.s |
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| Oct 19 | | Had submarine contacts. Escort dropped a few depth charges |
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| Oct 20 | | Had an attack by four Jap planes. One crashed into a Liberty ship. Another Liberty ship was torpedoed. Convoy shot down two of the planes. |
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| Oct 22 | | D-Day plus 2. Leyte, P.I. |
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| 0500 | General quarters |
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| 1044 | Anchored in San Pedro Bay |
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| 1130 | Raised anchor and beached near air strip. Unloaded in about two hours. Retracted and anchored. One Jap plane came over late in afternoon, but didn’t do any damage. |
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| Oct 23 | 0315 | General quarters. At daylight we discovered we were stuck on sand bar. Other L.S.T.s in convoy got underway for New Guinea. Got off sand bar around 1100, but run aground again not much hope of getting off this time with out help. Had several G.Q.s throughout day. |
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| Oct 24 | | Bunce, S.W. was wounded. Several G.Q.s throughout day. Shot down our first Jap plane a Sally about 150 yards off our port bow. She was diving for the ship. The Sonama, a tug, was hit while on her way to pull us off the sand bar. A Jap plane crash dived into her. |
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| Oct 25 | 0130 | The tug Quapow #110 pulled us off sand bar. Anchored in bay. Shot down our second Jap plane, a Val, off our port bow. Had 26 air raids throughout the day. Had a few near misses by bombs. Abbott wounded. |
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| Oct 26 | 1612 | Underway for Hollandia, New Guinea. Had an attack on convoy by 35 planes just before dark. |
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| Nov 01 | 1053 | Beached at Hamboldt Bay |
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| Nov 09 | 0616 | Underway for Biak |
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| Nov 10 | 2022 | Anchored off Biak. Beached and loaded U.S. air force unit. |
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| Nov 14 | 0225 | Underway for Leyte |
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| Nov 18 | | Had an attack by several Jap planes. Three were shot down. Two ships hit. |
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| Nov 19 | 0901 | Beached at Catmon Hill, Leyte |
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| 2020 | Underway fro Hollandia |
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| Nov 23 | 1530 | Had an attack by lone Jap plane. He was shot down off our starboard bow. |
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| Nov 25 | 0738 | Arrived at Hollandia. Beached and loaded several units of U.S. army. |
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| Nov 29 | 1513 | Underway for Letye |
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| Dec 05 | | Had an attack by Jap planes. One Liberty hit by suicide plane. |
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| Dec 06 | 1102 | Beached at Leyte. Unloaded and retracted. |
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| Dec 09 | | Beached and loaded R.A.A.F. |
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| Dec 12 | 1320 | Underway for invasion of Mindora |
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| Dec 13 | 0800 | General quarters. Escort shot down four or five Jap planes. General quarter again. U.S.S. Nashville was hit by suicide diver causing her to return to Leyte for repairs. |
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| Dec 14 | 1000 | General quarters. Our fighters shot down around ten Jap planes. Saw a few good fights between Jap planes and P-38s. No damage to convoy. |
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| Dec 15 | | D-Day, Mindora |
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| 0500 | General quarters |
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| 0720 | H-Hour |
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| 0845 | Beached at White beach, Mindoro with first wave if L.S.T.s to beach. L.S.T. 738 and 742 hit by suicide dives while waiting to beach. Underway for Leyte around 2000. |
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| Dec 18 | 0847 | Beached at Catman Hill, Leyte. Loaded U.S. army unit. |
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| Dec 19 | 1712 | Underway for Mindoro |
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| Dec 21 | | Had an attack by fifteen Jap planes late in afternoon. We were third ship in outside column of convoy. L.S.T. 748, the lead ship and L.S.T. 460, the second ship in the column were hit by suicide dives. We picked up survivors from the 460. The last ship in the column, a Liberty was hit by a bomb, but she didn’t sink. |
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| Dec 22 | 0805 | Beached at Blue Beach, Mindora |
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| 1623 | Underway for Leyte. We carried seven Jap Prisoners to Leyte. |
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| Dec 24 | 2140 | Anchored in San Predro Bay |
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