Named in honor Major General Tasker Howard Bliss, USMA 1875, who was military attache' at Madrid when the Spanish-American War broke out.   Later served as Chief of Staff, U. S. Army.  He was a signer of the Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain. 

Ship known to have been in Yokohama in April 1946.

Ref:  http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22131.htm