USS Requisite ( AM - 109 ) USS " Requisite " ( AM - 109 ) was an acquired by the United States Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing . " Requisite " was laid down 12 November 1941 by the Winslow Marine Railway and Shipbuilding Company , Seattle , Washington ; launched 25 July 1942 ; and commissioned 7 June 1943 , Lt . Robert W . Graham , USNR , in command . World War II Pacific operations . Following shakedown off southern California , " Requisite " proceeded to San Francisco . Thence on 1 August , she escorted a convoy to Honolulu . Attached to Service Squadron 6 , she trained in Hawaiian waters into October . On the 25th , she cleared Pearl Harbor and headed for the New Hebrides to prepare for her first amphibious operation , the invasion of Tarawa Atoll , in the Gilberts . Departing Efate on 13 November , she took up her position as listening vessel at the lagoon entrance off Betio early on the morning of the 20th . While pre - invasion bombardment was in progress , she and swept a channel from the transport area into the lagoon . Just prior to the landings , she took up duties as assistant control and survey ship and began marking the channel and searching out possible anchorages in the lagoon . On the 21st , she returned to the transport area and resumed screening duties . As Tarawa was being secured , " Requisite " shifted to Abemama and assisted in the offloading of equipment and supplies for the garrison group . She then remained in the area until 12 December when she got underway for Pearl Harbor . Operating with Task Force 52 . On 22 January 1944 , she sortied with Task Force TF 52 for the invasion of the Marshalls . In the antisubmarine screen of the Southern Attack Force , en route , she arrived off Kwajalein Atoll on the 31st . She continued her antisubmarine activities until 3 February , then began sweeping operations off Kwajalein and other islands in the southern part of the atoll . On the 6th , she planted navigational aids , and on the 15th , sortied with Task Group TG 51 . 11 for the Eniwetok assault . Two days later , she entered Eniwetok lagoon between Japtan and Parry Islands . Sweeping and survey duties followed . On the 24th , she returned to Kwajalein and , through March escorted reconnaissance parties in LST s and LCI s to Wotho , Ujae , Lae , Ailinglapalap , Namorik and other minor atolls and islands of the Marshalls . On 10 April , she departed those islands and headed east with an LST convoy . On the 24th , she escorted her charges into Pearl Harbor and 2 days later continued on to San Francisco and overhaul . On 16 July she returned to Hawaii . An escort run to Eniwetok and inter - island escort duty in Hawaii took her into September . Then , on the 23rd , she headed west for her next invasion target , the Philippines . Operations with the Seventh Fleet . Moving across the $ 3 via Eniwetok , she joined the 7th Fleet at Manus on 10 October , and seven days later she commenced sweeping the approaches to Leyte Gulf . She continued her sweeping operations until the 24th , when she anchored in San Pedro Bay . Three days later , she began a five - day search for survivors of the battles for Leyte Gulf . During November she swept in waters near Homonhon , Suluan , Calicoan , and Dinagat . In early December , she and " Pursuit " swept the Canigao Channel , West Passage , to provide a second access to the Camotes Sea . On the 6th , 7th , and 8th , " Requisite " participated in the Ormoc Bay assault , then returned to the east coast of Leyte . On 2 January 1945 , " Requisite " moved north with Task Group TG 77 . 6 . The next day she entered the Sulu Sea . She passed Manila Bay on 5 January , and , on the 6th , she began sweeping operations in Lingayen Gulf which continued until the 14th . She then replenished at Leyte , and returned to Luzon on 29 January for pre - invasion sweeps off San Felipe in Zambales Province . On the 31st , she anchored in Subic Bay . In February , " Requisite " with others of Mine Division 3 , moved east to Guam , whence she continued to Ulithi . In mid - March she sortied with Mine Group 1 of the Okinawa invasion force . Okinawa operations . Arriving in the Ryūkyūs on the 24th , " Requisite " swept the approaches to Kerama Retto the same day . On the 25th , she extended operations to Keise Shima . The 26th saw her off southern Okinawa . From the 27th through the 29th , she operated off the Hagushi beaches and on the 30th and 31st she swept off the Motobu Peninsula and Ie Shima . She then retired to Kerama Retto . " Requisite " remained in the Okinawa area , employed in screening and sweeping operations until 16 April . A month ' s respite in the Marianas followed ; but by the end of May she was back in the Ryūkyūs . Through June , she continued patrol and sweeping duties off Okinawa . In July she began sweeping in the East China Sea in anticipation of an invasion of the Japanese home islands . Then , in August , she departed for an availability at Leyte . There when hostilities ceased , she returned to Okinawa at the end of the month and in September resumed sweeping operations , this time to clear Japanese waters for the arrival of occupation forces and the resumption of peacetime maritime traffic . Off Shikoku during early September , she shifted to Honshū at midmonth and during October operated in the Ise Wan area . On in November , she added the responsibility of communications and operational headquarter , CTG 52 . 8 , to her duties and on 17 December she headed back to the United States . Post - War operations . The ship arrived at San Diego on 17 January 1946 . The following month , she continued on to the U . S . East Coast arriving at Norfolk on 21 February . For the next year and a half she operated with the Atlantic Fleet towing targets for training groups . Then ordered inactivated , she proceeded to Orange , Texas , where she decommissioned and joined the Reserve Fleet on 23 December 1947 . Operations as a survey ship . Recommissioned 15 February 1950 , " Requisite " was assigned to hydrographic survey duties . She reported to the Atlantic Fleet for duty on 1 March and for the next three years she spent the winter survey season operating in the Caribbean and the warmer months off Labrador and Greenland . Reclassified AGS - 18 on 18 August 1951 , she discontinued her North $ 3 - Caribbean schedule in the fall of 1954 . On 6 October she got underway from Norfolk ; and , from 1 November 1954 to 2 February 1955 , she conducted surveys from İskenderun , Turkey . The following year , " Requisite " shifted to the northern Pacific . She arrived at her new homeport , Seattle , in late June and before the end of the month had commenced Arctic operations . By mid - September she had surveyed routes from Herschel Island to Shepherd Bay , taking continuous soundings and compiling bathythermograph information and gathering core samplings every 20 miles . She continued her operations from Seattle until July 1958 . Then homeported at San Francisco , California , she remained in the Pacific , ranging from the Arctic to Polynesia , to Central America until the spring of 1959 . On 1 May 1959 , she got underway for Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . Arriving on the 23rd , she resumed operations with ServRon 8 , Atlantic Fleet and during the summer operated in the Caribbean . In November , she sailed east for her first survey season in the Persian Gulf . During the 1960 - 61 season she returned to the Persian Gulf , but remained in the Atlantic , the Caribbean , and off New England during the 1961 - 62 season . On 1 July 1962 , she sailed for Iceland and a return to survey operations of Greenland , completing that mission in November . In January 1963 , she sailed to the West Indies , operated there through the summer , and returned to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in early November . Decommissioning . Ordered inactivated she reported to the Philadelphia Group , Atlantic Reserve Fleet , on 23 December . She was decommissioned and struck from the Navy list on 1 April 1964 . Awards . " Requisite " earned eight battle stars during World War II .