Status - John Skinner - USS St. Croix
John has reported to his new ship, the USS_Saint_Croix, which was commissioned on December 1st, 1944 at Vancouver, Washington. Saint Croix was an attack transport, carrying 1500 troops to battle areas and landing them using the onboard landing craft.
Many of these ships were build and entered service in 1944 and 1945, in anticipation of the remaining islands to be taken, and of course the eventual invasion of the Japanese home islands.
USS Saint Croix:
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As part of the original crew at commissioning, John received a Plank Owner's certificate. This supposedly entitled the bearer to an original plank from the ship's deck.
For the next two months, the ship would undergo outfitting for service and then executing a shakedown cruise along the west coast of the US, ending in San Diego in late January.
There are no ship's deck logs online for the St. Croix, and so the blog will update once or twice a month during the next year, instead of every 4 days. St. Croix will remain in the Pacific during 1945, through the end of the war, and then return to the US mainland.
NEXT POST: JANUARY 1
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