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Photo # NH 73270-A:  USS Hocking at anchor, circa 1945

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USS Hocking (APA-121), 1944-1974

USS Hocking a 6,873-ton (light displacement) Haskell-class attack transport of modified Victory ship design, was built at Wilmington, California. Commissioned in October 1944, she went to Hawaii in December to begin preparations for her first amphibious assault operation. On 19 February 1945, Hocking participated in the landings on Iwo Jima, remaining there until late in that month. In April she brought reinforcements to Okinawa and evacuated casualties of the battle for that island. The ship made two more voyages to Okinawa with more troops, one in May and June and the second, originating on the U.S. West Coast, in July and August 1945.

The fighting had ended by the time she completed the latter trip, and Hocking then took part in occupation operations in the Far East, transporting troops to Korea during September, October and November. Her next assignment was to carry war veterans home from the former war zone, making two eastbound trans-Pacific voyages for this purpose in late 1945 and early 1946. After transiting the Panama Canal en route to the U.S. Atlantic Coast Hocking was decommissioned in May 1946 and laid up in the James River, Virginia, as part of the U.S. Maritime Commission's reserve fleet. She was inactive for nearly three decades before being sold for scrapping in May 1974.

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Photo #: NH 73270-A

USS Hocking
(APA-121)

At anchor, circa 1945.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of James W. Gaddis, donated by Colonel C.K. Mahakian, 1972.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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