High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! LSM(R)-193 was laid down at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina. The ship was commissioned on 21 November 1944, Lt. Donald E. Boynton, USNR, in command. During World War II the ship was assigned to the Asiatic Pacific theater. At that time the fleet was under the command of Admiral Spruance and named the Fifth fleet. Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner was Commander of Amphibious Forces Pacific and was to be in charge of operations until the beachhead was established. The Kerama Retto islands were a small chain of islands 15 miles west of the southwest tip of Okinawa.

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