"City of Dalhart " stood out from San Francisco 9 June 1944, carrying sailors and cargo to Pearl Harbor.Assigned as a mobile barracks for the 301st Naval Construction Battalion, she departed Pearl Harbor 16 July with the men and machinery of this unit aboard, called at Eniwetok from 3 August to 5 August, and put into Guam on 11 August, one day after the island was declared secure.