Transferred To The Pacific Theatre
With the Atlantic free of the U-boat menace, Burrows was needed in the Pacific. On 8 June, she began the westward voyage, pausing first at Culebra Island in Puerto Rico for shore bombardment exercises and then at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for refresher training. Finally, she carried out depth charge exercises with a bottomed submarine in Gonaïves Bay, Haiti, before transiting the Panama Canal on 28 June. After a short repair period in San Diego, California, the destroyer escort headed west, arriving in Pearl Harbor on 19 July. There, she underwent a strenuous training program designed to bring the warship to her fighting peak before she met the Japanese. On 6 August, Burrows left for Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. While she was anchored in Eniwetok lagoon on 15 August, the message arrived announcing the end of hostilities with Japan.
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