Harry Lee (APA 10) - Naval Cruise Book

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stood awaiting orders. The 81stiDivision was being heldiinfarea 'reserve for Okinawa, but was' never called. Instead orders were received a week later and the LEE proceeded incompany with her transport division through the viiiiz- Straits, the small islands south of Manus, and entered Seeadler Harbor I9 May, to make an aiiehoiagei The follow- ingiday the transport division got -underway again. The destination was Rizal and then Tarraguna, Cities on the Leyte Gulf, Philippine Islands. Troops and cargo were unloaded and on 20 May the LEE proceeded to San Pedro Bay, Leyte, P. I. The HARRY lay at anchor for a week in San Pedro Bay and at the end of thistime she got un- derway for Finschaven, New Guinea via Seeadler Harbor. She docked at Dreggar Harbor and loaded personnel and cargo of the 1872nd Engineer Avia- tion Battalion, 364th Station Hospital and the 13th General Hospital, USA. From Dreggar Harbor the orders read to proceed to Langemak Bay and thence to Hollandia, New Guinea. The HARRY entered Humboldt Bay, Hollandia and anchored on june seventh to await further orders. From Hollandia, in company with a large trans- port division, the LEE steamed for Batangas, Lu- zon, Philippine Islands, arriving at the destination the seventeenth of June. Her stay at Batangas was brief for less than three hours after letting go the anchor, she was underway again, this time for Manila, arriving late the evening of the same day. The army personnel and cargo were discharged at Manila and orders were received to proceed to Leyte Harbor for further instructions. From Leyte Harbor the ship was directed to re- turn to Finsch Harbor, New Guinea and 'on 26 June the LEE departed arriving at Cape Bredow, Finsch Harbor live days later. Personnel and cargo of the 300th and 267th Signal Radar Battalions, 7-45rd AA and 84th ordnance c'0mpanii-gi-were taken aboard., From Finsch Harbor theiLEE sailed, to Cape 'Caille,i Humboldt ABay, and two days later joined a Ho11andia-Manila convoy. From Manila' she went to San Fernando, another Philippineihar- bor town, where she discharged the passenger per-I sonnel and cargo. She then headedfor Leyte Gulf anchoring in the San ,Pedro Bay to await further orders. - On july twentieth, after refueling, the HARRY LEE got underway for San Francisco, California, proceeding independently and arriving- in .She 'San Francisco Bay the eighth of August. Her siay in the States this time was to be a short., one, but momentous, being there for V.-I. Dayfvi 3 I I' if After a brief 'period in drydock 'at-.Hunter's Point and thence to Richmond, California, to load cargo and troops of various units of the S. Army, the LEE got underway once again. This time the Destination was Manila with a brief stop at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. She crossed the International Date Line on thepseicond of September and arrived in Manila Bayji the six- teenth'of the month. The troops and cargo un- loaded in Manila and after lying to a short period in Leyte Gulf, the ship sailed for the town of Legaspi, Albay Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands ar- riving inthe scenic little bay 24 September. On the twenty-ninth of September, 1945, per- sonnel and cargo of the 158th Regimental Combat Team began coming aboard foripassage to the HARRY LEE's next and long, awaited -desiiiiaiioii -TOKYO. I V A fpfqf After discharging, the embarked troops of the 158th in Yokohama, japan, the embarked Army, Navy, Marine and Coast Guard, high point men and sailed for Pearl Harbor, thence to join the Magic Carpet. S A FWS? IN ' IANILA You Ant NOW ENTERING TOKYO I 1sfCAVALRY DIVISION Jiiif '7 and the U. S. S. HARRY LEE I FIRST IN TOKYO

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