sentences:  On 4 July, "Velocity" departed Kerama Retto for minesweeping operations in the East China Sea.With her base of operations now at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, the ship proceeded to sweep 13 mines between 4 and 30 July and continued operations into the East China Sea into August and past the end of the war with Japan.In the operation concluded on 25 August, "Velocity" tallied a score of 35 mines located and destroyed.