The ships made Oran on 10 July; and, the next day, Tatum got under way to pick up SS Cross Keys at Casablanca and escort her to Bizerte, Tunisia.

Augmented by Kasaan Bay and Tulagi, the unit steamed to Alexandria, Egypt, and then returned to Malta where they arrived on 3 August.

[2] The next day, Tatum reported to Naples where she embarked the commander of a landing craft convoy for the impending invasion of southern France.

Tatum stood out of Naples on 9 August, joined the landing craft in the Gulf of Pozzuoli, and escorted them to the staging area at Ajaccio, Corsica.

[1] Tatum (APD-81) cleared Tompkinsville on 6 March 1945, steamed to the Chesapeake Bay for training until the 14th, and stood out of Hampton Roads on the 16th in company with Prentiss.

[2] Tatum arrived off Okinawa's Hagushi beaches on 19 May and reported for duty with the antiaircraft and antisubmarine pickets stationed around the island.

It skipped off the surface, struck and careened off the underside of a gun sponson, and pierced Tatum's hull and two of her longitudinal bulkheads.

The plane also skimmed over the water into Tatum, dented her hull, and knocked out her director fire control and communications with the engine room.

He dove on the fast transport, barely missing the port wing of her bridge, and Tatum's antiaircraft fire followed him up as he climbed, did a wing-over, and prepared to come in again.

Her barrage ripped off part of his left wing, and he plummeted toward the water, splashing into the sea about 30 feet from her port bow.

Relieved by Walter C. Wann later that evening, she stopped at Hagushi to take on a bomb disposal officer and moved two miles out to sea where the dud was disarmed and dropped overboard.

From there, she screened Briareus to San Pedro Bay, Leyte, where her permanent repairs were completed; and Tatum conducted exercises with Texas, Mississippi, Gainard, and Barber.

Between 9 and 11 September, she screened a task unit carrying occupation officials from Buckner Bay to Wakanoura Wan, Honshū, Japan.

Following training at San Francisco, he served at the Naval Hospital in Fort Lyon, Colorado, and in the receiving ship at Norfolk, Virginia.

Pharmacist's Mate 2d Class Tatum completed his enlistment at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia and was honorably discharged at Atlanta, Ga., on 18 August 1919.

Late in August 1940, Lieutenant Commander Tatum reported to Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, for active duty.