sentences:  With the formal cessation of hostilities in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater on 15 August 1945, "Manatee" sailed for Ulithi en route to San Pedro, California, arriving there on 7 October.The oiler soon departed the west coast for the Far East, returning to the western Pacific at the end of November to support the occupation operations.The "Manatee" at this time had to carry out these and other deployments with a crew steadily being reduced in size by post-war discharges and reassignments.