Tuhia he haere tonu mō tēnei wāhanga - I te wā o te pakanga, i whakaritea te "LST-448" ki te Pacific Theater of Operations. I uru ia ki te whakakotahitanga o te tonga o Solomon
i te Pipiri 1943, me te nohoanga o Vella Lavella i te Oketopa 1943.