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The rest of the month was consumed making emergency repairs necessary because of excessive continuous service. A few passen- gers and patients returning to the States boarded for the next leg of the journey which ended at Pearl Harbor. The destroyer escort MANLOVE and PC-587 escorted the ship to Eniwetok, after which she proceeded independently for the next 11 days, arriving at Pearl Harbor 16 March. - ' Here it was .learned that the COMET was to return to San Francisco for overhaul. 400 patients from U.S.S. Naval Hospital, including some Iwo Jima casualties, were taken aboard during the next two days. Also received were a number of passengers going back for reassignment. On Sunday, 18 March, the last leg of the journey began, and a week later the COMET steamed under the Golden.Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay and debarked all patients and passengers. T .. ' A period of 60 days availability was granted the ship for altera- tions, maintenance, and repairs, and all personnel were given 25 days leave. Everyone felt that it was well earned after serving 11 consecutive months overseas and participating in 4 major invasions. Overhaul began Z6 March at Pier 25 with the General Engineering and Drydock Company doing the work. A On March 26th the first leave xection w-as of and work began. The entire ship way changed over in many ways and when the jirft .fection returned it war, to thern., like Corning back to a new COMET. The availability expired 25 May after the ship had been dry- docked at Hunter's Point and had completed :numerous tests on Z3 and 24 May in preparation for sea. On 17 May Lt. B. Blee had been detached and Lt. K. Adams, Jr. was now the Executive Officer. Provisions, stores, and ammunition were loaded at NSD, Oakland, during the period 26-28 May and on the 31st the COMET was once again underway carrying out orders to report to Port Hueneme, California, to load Seabees destined for Okinawa in the Ryukus Islands. T ' 660 i a . iz Q S 5 l QE g . iw . il l ii .,. 4
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