Complex sentence: Offloading empty brass picked up at Pearl Harbor, "Vega" transported a cargo of dry stores to San Francisco before proceeding on to Oakland, California, where she was decommissioned on 15 January 1946.
Split into simpler sentences: Offloading empty brass picked up at Pearl Harbor, "Vega" transported a cargo of dry stores to San Francisco. Proceeding on to Oakland, California, she was decommissioned on 15 January 1946.