Information: - The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. - USS Arethusa ( IX - 135 ) began life as Gargoyle -- a tanker built in 1921 at Oakland , Calif. , by the Moore Shipbuilding Co. and was renamed Arethusa by the Navy and designated IX - 135 on 3 November 1943 ; acquired by the Navy on 23 March 1944 from the War Shipping Administration on a bareboat basis for use as a mobile floating storage tanker ; and placed in commission on that same day at Majuro Atoll , Marshall Islands , Lt. Walter J. Tross in command . Arethusa remained at Majuro through early June providing fuel to various ships of the Fleet . She got underway on 8 June and proceeded to Eniwetok , where she resumed her fueling operations . The tanker sailed on 19 August for the Admiralty Islands , reached Manus on 28 August , and once again dispensed fuel to Allied ships . The tanker headed for the Philippines on 12 October to support Fleet units about to begin the reconquest of that archipelago . She reached Leyte Gulf on 20 October and commenced fueling operations . Arethusa shaped a course back to Manus in early January 1945 and operated there through 5 May , when she got underway for the Western Caroline Islands . The vessel reached Ulithi four days later and resumed fueling services . The ship weighed anchor once again on 22 June and set a course for Kerama Retto in the Ryukyus . She was stationed at Okinawa when the Japanese surrendered in mid-August 1945 and continued operations at that island until mid-December . Arethusa then moved to Subic Bay , Philippines . She provided fuel to fleet ships at that port through 3 March 1946 , when the vessel got underway for home . She reached Pearl Harbor , Hawaii , on 28 March and remained there for a short period of voyage repairs . The ship left Hawaiian waters on 5 April and steamed into San Francisco Bay on 15 April . She was decommissioned at San Francisco on 16 May 1946 and returned to the War Shipping Administration on that same day . Her name was struck from the Navy list on 5 June 1946 . The vessel was sold to Kaiser Co. , Inc. , on 8 December 1947... - Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land (January 8, 1879 November 27, 1971) was an officer in the United States Navy, noted for his contributions to naval architecture, particularly in submarine design. Notable assignments included serving as Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair during the 1930s, and as Chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission during World War II. - Kiribati (or ), officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: "Ribaberiki Kiribati"), is an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is just over 100,000 (2011), more than half of whom live on Tarawa Atoll. The nation comprises 33 atolls and reef islands and one raised coral island, Banaba. They have a total land area of and are dispersed over 3.5million square kilometers (1,351,000squaremiles). Their spread straddles the equator and the 180th meridian, although the International Date Line is indented to bring the Line Islands in the same day as the Kiribati Islands. The International Date Line circumscribes Kiribati by swinging far to the east, almost reaching the 150W meridian. Kiribati's easternmost islands, the southern Line Islands south of Hawaii, have the most advanced time on Earth, UTC+14 hours. - World WarII (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nationsincluding all of the great powerseventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World WarII the deadliest conflict in human history. - The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the US needed for fighting the war. Both shipbuilding under the Maritime Commission and ship allocation under the WSA to Army, Navy or civilian needs were closely coordinated though Vice Admiral Emory S. Land who continued as head of the Maritime Commission while also heading the WSA. - The Federated States of Micronesia (abbreviated FSM and also known simply as Micronesia) is an independent sovereign island nation and a United States associated state consisting of four states from west to east, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosraethat are spread across the Western Pacific Ocean. Together, the states comprise around 607 islands (a combined land area of approximately ) that cover a longitudinal distance of almost just north of the equator. They lie northeast of New Guinea, south of Guam and the Marianas, west of Nauru and the Marshall Islands, east of Palau and the Philippines, about north of eastern Australia and some southwest of the main islands of Hawaii. - The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the International Date Line. Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia. The country's population of 53,158 people (at the 2011 Census) is spread out over 29 coral atolls, comprising 1,156 individual islands and islets. The islands share maritime boundaries with the Federated States of Micronesia to the west, Wake Island to the north, Kiribati to the south-east, and Nauru to the south. About 27,797 of the islanders (at the 2011 Census) live on Majuro, which contains the capital. - The Equator usually refers to an imaginary line on the Earth's surface equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole, dividing the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere. The Equator is about long; some 78.7% lies across water and 21.3% over land. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'operator' with the subject 'uss arethusa '. Choices: - australia - meridian - southern - united states navy - world war ii
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united states navy