serviceable ammunition; unserviceable munitions were dumped at sea. The next day the caulking and plugging of open seams was begun. Temporary repairs completed by 6 March, Mazama steamed for San Francisco, arriving 4 April. She then headed back toward the Philippines 9 June with 5,000 tons of ammunition. On 2 July she entered San Pedro Bay where she remained through the end of the war. Decommissionings and recommissionings On 19 August she rendezvoused off the Japanese coast with TG 30.8 whose units were under orders to stand by until the signing of the official surrender document. She then returned to the Philippines, discharging remaining cargo, and sailed to the United States, arriving 23 November at Seattle to prepare for inactivation and transfer to the Pacific Reserve Fleet. On 12 April 1946 she steamed to San Diego where she decommissioned 3 August. Mazama recommissioned 24 April 1952 and was assigned to Service Force, Atlantic Fleet. For the next five years she operated off the east coast with annual deployments with the 6th Fleet. During her 1956 Mediterranean deployment (1 May to 11 October) she was part of the logistics force in the eastern part of that sea as the crisis over Egyptian nationalization of the Suez Canal heightened. The crisis erupted in late October into armed conflict between Israel, the United Kingdom, France, and Egypt. Following her return to the east coast, Mazama decommissioned 10 June 1957 at Orange, Texas, where she remained as a unit of the 16th Fleet until 1961. On 27 November 1961 Mazama again recommissioned. Home ported at Mayport, Florida for the next four years, she participated in fleet exercises along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean. During fall 1962 exercises in the latter area she was called on to support the ships enforcing the Cuban quarantine. In 1964 she was again deployed to the Mediterranean, where during a rearming of the Roosevelt CVA 42 and the USS Mazama AE 9 there was a collision, only one sailor was injured, Seaman Albert with a concussion during the collision. There was severe damage to the Mazama and she was transported to Roto Spain for repairs. During the month of August, she stood by in support of the Cyprus patrol as civil unrest and fighting between Greek and Turkish Cypriots threatened an uneasy peace in the eastern Mediterranean. Mazama returned to Florida 23 December to operate out of