High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! After commissioning, LST-32 served as a training platform in Chesapeake Bay until March 1944 when she crossed the Atlantic Ocean and entered the Mediterranean Sea. On 1 April, while proceeding in a convoy from the Algerian coast to the island of Majorca, she and her consorts endured a low level attack by a formation of three German twin-engine bombers. Antiaircraft fire splashed one of them and drove off the other two. The ship operated into the summer with the task group that resupplied the Anzio beachhead. Early in August, she prepared for the invasion of southern France and, during the landings on 15 August, was among the LSTs off the Iles d'Hyeres as senior radar ship. She sent two separate radar units ashore on Port Cros, one on the 15th and the second on the following day.

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