sentences: "Wabash" conducted underway replenishments with , , , and , as task force TF 77 "showed the flag" in the Indian Ocean as part of the American effort to balance a growing Soviet presence in that area of the world.Her duties thus completed, "Wabash" returned to Subic Bay on 7 August and got underway nine days later to rejoin the "Ranger" task group to replenish them as they returned to the United States.