Transferred To The Pacific Ocean
On 9 June 1945, she entered the New York Navy Yard for post-voyage availability. Sturtevant emerged from the yard 38 days later with her antiaircraft defenses strengthened considerably. En route to Pearl Harbor, she trained for 14 days in the Guantánamo Bay area and stopped briefly at San Diego, California. By the time Sturtevant arrived in Hawaiian waters, the war was over.
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