sentences:  From the Admiralties, "Manatee" proceeded north to support the forces then covering the Leyte landings.Her fueling activities kept her in the Philippines until late February 1945, when she returned to Ulithi, where three months earlier one of the "Manatee's" sister ships, the oiler USS "Mississinewa" (AO-59), had been sunk by a Kaiten, a manned Japanese suicide torpedo.From Ulithi, "Manatee" steamed back to Leyte Gulf to fuel the amphibious forces gathering for the Okinawa campaign.