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| - With shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay, the new large infantry landing craft departed Key West, Florida, on 12 November for the $3, transited the Panama Canal on the 19th, and arrived San Diego, California, on 1 December. There she joined LCI Group 57, sailed for Hawaii on 29 January 1945, and arrived Pearl Harbor on 7 February. On the afternoon of 2 September, the Japanese forces in the Palaus surrendered.
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| - With shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay, the new large infantry landing craft departed Key West, Florida, on 12 November for the $3, transited the Panama Canal on the 19th, and arrived San Diego, California, on 1 December. There she joined LCI Group 57, sailed for Hawaii on 29 January 1945, and arrived Pearl Harbor on 7 February. LCI(L)-869 got underway for the war zone on the 15th, refueled at Johnston Island five days later, and reached the Palaus, via Majuro, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, and Guam, on 7 April. There she joined a picket line which had been formed to seal off by-passed Japanese-held islands in the area from reinforcements and to protect American bases from invasion. While on picket station, LCI(L)-869 repulsed a suicide swimming attack, sank several floating mines which threatened American ships, and heard countless mortar shells whined overhead. On the afternoon of 2 September, the Japanese forces in the Palaus surrendered.
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