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HISTORY OF THE LENAWEE The LENAWEE, named after Lenawee County, Michigan, was buih by Kaiser Company, Vancouver, Washington, and launched on September 11, 1944. She received her official commissioning on October 11, 1944, at Astoria, Oregon. During World War II she was in a Transport Squadron operating in the Pacific, taking part in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasions. She carried troops of the First Cavalry Division to Yokohama and was present in Tokyo Bay at the time of the Japanese surrender. The LENAWEE went into mothballs after the War and remained so until 1950 and the outbreak of the Korean conflict. While operating in the Korean area she aided in the major evacuation of North Korean partisans to islands below the 38th parallel. During the signing of the final Korean truce on 28 July 1953, the LENAWEE was the station ship in Inchon Harbor, Korea. In February of 1955 she took part in the evacuation of Chinese Nationalist refugees from the Tachen Island off the China coast. On her first trip to Keelung, Formosa, she carried approximately 3800 civilians and returned to the islands for another load consisting of 1200 troops. Since then, the LENAWEE has completed five tours of duty in the Western Pacific and has taken part in numerous Amphibious exercises. On this tour she participated in tliree major operations.
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