Transfer To The Pacific Fleet
Strickland arrived at Pearl Harbor on 25 July and was conducting training exercises when Japan capitulated. She escorted an aircraft carrier to Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, on 29 August, and accompanied three merchant ships from there to Japan, arriving in Tokyo Bay on 2 October. She sailed from there to Guam and, until January 1946, visited Iwo Jima, Truk, and Okinawa. She returned to San Diego, California, on 25 January 1946 and was routed to the East Coast for inactivation. Strickland arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 11 February and moved down to Charleston, South Carolina, the following month. She remained at Charleston from 10 March to 5 December when she was towed to Green Cove Springs, Florida. The destroyer was decommissioned on 15 June and placed in reserve with the Atlantic Fleet.
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