Warren (APA 53) - Naval Cruise Book

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At the end of May, we completed loading the Third Marines and headed north. Scuttlebutt said that our objective was Guam- and scuttlebutt was right, although we had to delay our landing and lay over at Eniwetok while our forces broke up the Nip resistance on Saipan. On july ZO, we sent our boatloads of lN4arines against the Japs at Guam, and in the following five days, we came to know the bitter horror of war. Here we saw our first Ameri- can plane shot down, a flaming torch that meteored to earth, and here we watched as our blarines inched their painful way up the deadly cliffs that over- looked our beach. Here we held services in our first burials at sea. Two short months later, on September l5, we sent the First bflarines into the flaming hell of Peleliu and watched as a verdant hill was blasted and torn by bombardment until there stood only the scarred and vicious, jutting coral rock known as Bloody-Nose Ridge?

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Two days after MacArthur sent his assault troops into Leyte Island in the Philippines, the Warren discharged the men and cargo of the first reinforcement group, escaping luckily from air attack and pulling out under the cover of darkness only a few hours before the Japs sent their battle fieet steaming to desruction in Surigao Straits. On November l4, we returned to Leyte, this time with six Red Cross women aboard as passen- gers in addition to our troops, and we cheered as an attacking torpedo bomber, riddled by our gun fire, crashed smoking into the sea. I 4' UIVNJJED AQWIN Wm Wi-4a 4, XJEH. e VW, QW, - 1 L ,f fc i .lifigvv I ' llf Q It was at Milne Bay, New Guinea, that we spent our first Christmas away from the states. A lonely and cheerless day it was for we'd been several weeks without mail, and wie were not to receive our packages for yet another weeks when we' stopped at Nlanus Island on our way to Luzon. At Lingayen Gulf, on January ll, ,l945, the VVarrenls luck ran out. Eleven men of our crew were killed in action, our first combat casual- ties. For several past months we had been told we were soon to go home. It was always Ujust oine more trip, and then And so we made one more trip, this time to Mindoro Island on February 9. X' - if S