USS Marmora (IX-189)-- Part 2: Action in the Pacific

Now back in U.S. service, the USS Marmora was assigned to the Service Force, United States Pacific Fleet and departed Pearl Harbor 28 January 1945 and went to the Marshall Islands and arrived at Eniwetok on 13 February for duty as a mobile floating storage ship.  Four days later she went to Saipan in the Mariana Islands and began unloading aviation.

On  31 March, the Marmora departed for the Caroline Islands and reached Ulithi on 3 April.  Then it was on to  the Ryukyu Islands, operating out of Okinawa to the Japanese surrender on August 15, 1945.

She continued operating out of Okinawa until  1 November 1945, when she went to the U.S. Gulf Coast via Pearl Harbor and the Panama Canal.  The Marmora arrived at Mobile, Alabama  4 January 1946 and was decommissioned in February and delivered to the War Shipping Administration and her first name restored.

She was scrapped after that in 1947.

There is a rown named Marmora  in New Jersey which must be where the name originated.

--GreGen