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===Pacific Fleet, 1945=== Although she kept her Coast Guard crew, ''Big Horn'' was returned to Navy control on 1 February 1945 and redesignated '''IX-207''' two days later. Over the next five weeks, the ship was converted into an oil shuttle and storage vessel before departing for the Pacific on 11 March. After loading 84,000 barrels (13,400 mΒ³) of oil at Aruba, [[Netherlands West Indies]], on the 18th, she passed through the [[Panama Canal]] on 21 March and reported to the Service Force, [[U.S. Pacific Fleet|Pacific Fleet]], that same day. Steaming west, ''Big Horn'' stopped at [[Pearl Harbor]] in early April before sailing on to the [[Marshall Islands]], where she anchored at [[Ulithi]] on 1 May. Assigned to Service Squadron 10 (ServRon 10), the shuttle tanker carried oil to [[Kossol Roads]] and [[Peleliu]] in the Western [[Caroline Islands|Carolines]] in early May before moving on to [[Tacloban]] in the [[Philippines]] later in the month. Returning to Ulithi on 3 June, she loaded more oil and delivered it to [[Leyte (island)|Leyte]] on the 9th. Over the next eight weeks, ''Big Horn'' carried out three more of these shuttle missions from Ulithi to Leyte. The tanker sailed to [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]] on 11 August and she was at that island on 15 August 1945, when her crew heard the news of the Japanese surrender. Departing Okinawa on 29 September, ''Big Horn'' steamed to Japan, where she was assigned duty as a station tanker at [[Nagoya, Aichi|Nagoya]] on 3 October. She remained there through January 1946. After transferring her cargo of oil to [[USS Beagle (IX-112)|''Beagle'']] (IX-112), the shuttle tanker got underway for home on 25 February. After a refueling stop at Pearl Harbor, she passed through the [[Panama Canal]] in early April and moored at [[Mobile, Alabama]], on 15 April. ''Big Horn'' then proceeded to [[New Orleans, Louisiana]]. She was decommissioned on 6 May 1946, and her name was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 3 July 1946. Berthed at [[Orange, Texas]], the ship was subsequently delivered to the Maritime Commission for disposal on 22 November 1946.
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