![]() Transiting the Panama Canal on 18-19 April, she reached Pago Pago, Samoa, on 10 May. on 10 April 1942, Heywood set course for the Pacific. Ultimately departing the east coast of the U.S. On the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, Roberts’ ship lay at Hampton Roads soon thereafter, the transport took part in exercises in the waters of Chesapeake Bay, and later made her third voyage to Iceland. During that time, Roberts advanced in rate to seaman first class on 1 September. Within three months, Heywood made a second voyage to Iceland, and before the year was out, conducted three passenger-carrying trips to Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad. Ultimately, Heywood sailed for Iceland, reaching Reykjavik on 7 July to disembark elements of the first U.S. Then, after conducting shakedown training off San Diego, Calif., and in Hawaiian waters, the transport embarked elements of the Sixth Marine Regiment, and departed San Diego on 31 May she transited the Panama Canal on 5 June, en route to Charleston, S.C., which port she reached ten days later. Heywood, her crew composed of naval reservists – like Roberts – from Portland, and Chicago, Ill., was commissioned on 19 February 1941. Recalled on 2 December 1940, Roberts received assignment to the transport Heywood (AP-12), formerly the Panama-Pacific liner City of Baltimore, which had been acquired in late October and was undergoing conversion at Portland. After that tour of duty, he returned to Seattle, Wash., as a passenger in Maryland (BB-46) on 12 October, and was released from active duty. Recalled to active duty as a seaman second class, Roberts reported on board the battleship California (BB-44) on 12 July 1940. Naval Reserve on 13 April 1939 at Portland, Ore., and underwent training from 19 August to 1 September 1939. born in San Francisco, Calif., on to Samuel B.
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