LSM-135 participated in the Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto in April and May 1945. While operating at Okinawa she was sunk by kamikaze attack off the Ryukyu Islands, 25 May 1945 at approximately 0830 hours. LSM-135 had only been in service 11 months and 25 days. At the time of her sinking LSM-135 was picking up survivors from the minesweeper when it also was hit by kamikaze attack and burst into flames. The destroyer escort rescued twenty survivors of the high speed transport , which was sinking from two kamikaze hits, and eleven survivors from LSM-135.
