[11] The USSB allocated the ship to the Pacific Steamship Company which placed her in its Admiral Line for operation on its service to Yokohama, Japan, Shanghai and Hong Kong, China and Manila.

[12] Wenatchee was briefly removed from service for repairs and improvements at Todd Shipyard in Seattle during which she was replaced for one voyage by Matson's Hawkeye State.

Arriving San Diego 18 June 1942, she took part in amphibious landing exercises until August, helping to mold the potent American assault forces which would be a decisive factor in the Pacific war.

[1] Henry T. Allen departed 23 October for North Africa and Operation Torch as part of the Northern Attack Force under Brig.

Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. and serving as flagship in that phase of the operation with headquarters remaining aboard during the landing of troops until it could be set up ashore.

[17] The force arrived off Mehedia, near strategic Port Lyautey, 7 November and Henry T. Allen began that morning to unload her Army troops from the transport area.

[1] On 17 March 1943 Allen was assigned as flagship, Commander Amphibious Force, Seventh Fleet, but was in poor condition and urgently needed for training and transport.

She made many passages through the dangerous waters of the Coral Sea, and on one occasion, 13 July 1943 detected a torpedo track approaching her port bow.

[1] Henry T. Allen sailed from Buna 26 March for training exercises on Goodenough Island with the U.S. 24th Infantry Division, completing 16 April.

[1] The ship spent the next few weeks transporting troops into Hollandia to consolidate gains and prepare for the next step in the westward advance toward the Philippines.

Henry T. Allen anchored at Aitape 15 May to load troops for the Wakde-Sarmi landings, and got underway the next day for a run of 120 miles undetected by the Japanese.

After a period in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, Benicia, California, she was sold to Boston Metals of Baltimore, Maryland, and scrapped in March 1948.