Supporting Philippine Area Operations
The destroyer escort arrived Subic Bay, Philippines, 22 May 1945 to join a hunter-killer group. In June and July she trained with American and British submarines and carried out antisubmarine searches in preparation for the eventual invasion of Japan.
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