Chilton (APA 38) - Naval Cruise Book

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The U.S.S. White Marsh was rommissioned on 29 January 19 ' i ' j. During Uvo years of combat (luring World War II she traveled 85,000 nautical miles in the Southwest and r.enlial Pacific areas. She is credited with having shot down one Japanese torpedo plane, as well as with having hauled tons of vehicles and other priority machinery to strategic points in the Pacific. With the end of hostilities, she served with the Magic Carpet Fleet and was subsequently transferred to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Bayonne, N.J., for a period of fifty-si. months. Recommissioned and ovei-hauled, the White Marsh voyaged to Bermuda on a shaketlowri cruise and participated in cold weather oper- ations in the Arctic Ocean. After participation in several amphibious operations on the Hast coast during the sum- mer of 1951, the White Marsh embarked troops of the Second Marine Division and steamed eastward across the Atlantic to join the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Si.x months and several landings later I he White Marsh was back in U.S. water ' s, where she went from a much needed shipyard period before fur- ther iimphibious operations in the Atlantic and Caribbean. The Mediterranean cruise of 1954 was preceded by a period of leave and upkeep in Norfolk. THE WHITE MARSH

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