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USS ''Gemini'' (AG-38/AK-52/AP-75) was a commissioned by the U.S. Navy for service in World War II. She was responsible for delivering troops and equipment to locations in the war zone. ''Gemini'' (AP-75) a lake-type freighter, was built as SS ''Coperas'' by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Subsequently renamed ''Aetna'' and then ''Saginaw'' around 1937 while in merchant service, she was acquired by the Navy 27 September 1941. Originally designated USS ''Matinicus'' (AG-38), she was reclassified AK-52 7 January 1942 while undergoing conversion at Bethlehem Steel Company, Boston, Massachusetts. Commissioned as USS ''Matinicus'' (AK-52) 4 August 1942, Lt. Comdr. W. L. Cain in command, she was redesignated and renamed USS ''Gemini'' (AP-75) 15 August 1942. ==World War II service== ''Gemini'' sailed 16 August for New York to load troops and sortied 24 October with convoy SC-107 bound for Ireland and United Kingdom ports. This, her first voyage, was also the most difficult, for the convoy ran into German submarine wolfpacks in mid-Atlantic and from 1 to 4 November no less than fifteen ships, nearly half the convoy, were torpedoed and sunk in a running battle. ''Gemini'' arrived safely at Reykjavík, Iceland, and spent the next 10 months as a transport for troops and cargo between Icelandic ports. The ship put in at Boston 3 September 1943 for overhaul, and then embarked troops at New York, departing 9 October bound for the west coast via Panama. After touching at San Pedro, California, for repairs, she reached Honolulu 11 December and commenced duty as an inter-island transport in Hawaiian waters. In July 1944 ''Gemini'' shifted her operations to the Marshalls and Gilberts, carrying men and cargo to and from Kwajalein, Apamama, Tarawa, Makin, Majuro, Roi Namur, and Eniwetok. She continued these essential transport duties in support of the allied advance until 1 June 1945 when she got underway for San Francisco, California, via Pearl Harbor. ''Gemini'' remained in drydock at San Francisco until the end of the war. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Gemini (AP-75)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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