High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alamogordo (ARDM-2) — a non-self-propelled floating dry dock completed in 1944 at Oakland, California, by the Pacific Bridge Co. as ARD-26 — was commissioned on 15 June 1944, Lieutenant Commander Irving B. Smith, USN (Ret.), in command. The drydock completed outfitting at Oakland and training at Tiburon, CA, between mid-June and late August. On 3 September, she was taken in tow for the voyage west. En route to the Marianas, the dry dock made layovers of ten and seven days respectively at Pearl Harbor and Eniwetok. She arrived at Guam on 24 October and reported for duty with Service Squadron 11 (ServRon 11). Not long thereafter, however, she was assigned temporarily to ServRon 10.