ACTIVITY DURING WWII
ENLISTED ON 4 JULY 1942 AT
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. REPORTED ABOARD THE USS TUSCALOOSA CA-37, A NEW ORLEANS
CLASS CRUISER. MAY, 1943 ESCORTED THE RMS QUEEN MARY WITH THE BRITISH PRIME
MINISTER CHURCHILL ABOARD TO NEW YORK CITY. OCTOBER, 1943 COVER FORCE FOR THE
USS RANGER AIR STRIKES ON BODO, NORWAY. AUGUST, 1944 TO JANUARY, 1945 OPERATED
IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA. JANUARY, 1945 JOINED THE 3RD FLEET AT ULITHI. FEBRUARY
TO JUNE, 1945 WITH THE BOMBARDMENT GROUP OF IWO JIMA AND OKINAWA. JUNE, 1945
JOINED THE 7TH FLEET AT LEYTE GULF, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 27 AUGUST 1945 DEPARTED
FOR KOREAN AND MANCHURIAN WATERS WITH STOP AT TSINGTAO, CHINA AND ANCHORED AT
INCHEON, KOREA. ARRIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ON 29 JANUARY 1946.