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463:, Korea, to take part in Operation "Sharp Edge", in which she embarked 300 Army troops with their equipment. Tulare then visited Hong Kong and several Japanese ports during the summer and early fall of 1961. En route to the
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operated locally in exercises off the west coast, with troop and cargo lifts, until sailing for her fourth deployment to the western
Pacific on 19 June 1961. Her special duty on the outbound voyage was to carry cargo to
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American bases on Okinawa, Japan, and the Philippine Islands supporting the American military presence in the Far East. In between these WestPac deployments,
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