USS Moore (DE-240) - Reassigned To The Pacific Fleet

Reassigned To The Pacific Fleet

On 11 May 1945, she put into Tompkinsville, shifting later to Brooklyn and then to Boston, Massachusetts, for overhaul preparatory to her reassignment to the Pacific Fleet. She got underway for the Pacific, with others of her division, CortDiv 7, for which she served as flagship, 24 June. On 4 August she arrived at Pearl Harbor, where, 10 days later, she received word of the Japanese agreement to Allied surrender terms. On the 20th, she resumed her westward voyage and arrived, on the 29th, at Saipan. There she reported to TF 94 for post war duty under Com Marianas area. Assigned to the Bonin Volcano area she anchored off western Iwo Jima, 3 September, and a few days later commenced air sea rescue operations with Fleet Air Wing 18.