sentences:  Taplett served on the ship for three years and participated in numerous campaigns in the Pacific Theater, including the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of the Aleutian Islands in 1943.After the war, Taplett, now a colonel, was assigned as the commanding officer of the navy supply barracks first at Clearview, Utah, and subsequently at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay and at the Naval Air Station Alameda, California.Taplett was dispatched to Korea immediately after the outbreak of hostilities.