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USS ''Mount Olympus'' (AGC-8) was a ''Mount McKinley''-class amphibious force command ship, named after the highest peak in the Olympic Mountains of Washington. She was designed as an amphibious force flagship, a floating command post with advanced communications equipment and extensive combat information spaces to be used by the amphibious forces commander and landing force commander during large-scale operations. ==World War II== ''Mount Olympus'' was laid down on 3 August 1943 at the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, North Carolina; launched on 3 October 1943 as ''Eclipse'', a transport, sponsored by Mrs. W. C. Park; renamed ''Mount Olympus'' on 27 December 1943; and commissioned at Boston, Massachusetts, after conversion on 24 May 1944, with Captain John Henry Shultz in command. ''Mount Olympus'' departed the east coast in early July, arriving Hawaii via the Panama Canal 23 July. With Commander, 3d Amphibious Force, embarked, she was underway from Hawaii 29 August. She arrived Leyte Gulf 20 October, serving as the afloat headquarters for the invasion force. The landing force was subjected to constant air attacks but its survival was assured by the American naval victory in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which destroyed the Japanese Navy as an effective combat force. On 26 October, the flagship departed for Hollandia, New Guinea, via Peleliu, in preparation for the next assault on the Japanese occupied Philippines. After invasion rehearsals in Huon Gulf, New Guinea, the ship departed Manus Island, Admiralties, 31 December for the assault on Lingayen Gulf 9 January 1945. After the initial assault and with the ground force commander disembarked, ''Mount Olympus'' was underway 11 January from Lingayen Gulf. She called at Ulithi to allow Commander, 3d Amphibious Force, to disembark to travel by plane to Hawaii, while she herself sailed for overhaul at San Francisco, arriving 11 February and leaving 22 April for Hawaii and Guam. Arriving Guam 6 July, ''Mount Olympus'' sailed on for Manila, colliding en route with oiler . The flagship was escorted to San Pedro Bay, Leyte, for repairs by , then continued to Manila, arriving 3 August. After the close of hostilities, ''Mount Olympus'' arrived Tokyo Bay 2 September with the 1st Cavalry Division on board for Yokohama. After 8 months’ moving occupation troops from the Philippines and other bases to ports in Japan and China, she left Shanghai 28 May 1946 for San Diego, the Panama Canal, and New York, arriving 7 July. 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 Mount Olympus (AGC-8)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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