Transfer To The Pacific Fleet
Reaching Pearl Harbor via the Panama Canal and San Diego, California, 1 August, Haverfield was there when the war ended in mid-August and at the end of the month assumed convoy escort duty from Saipan to Okinawa. She patrolled the China coast and then streamed her homeward-bound pennant, reaching Boston 15 February 1946. Haverfield sailed to Green Cove Springs, Florida, 25 March 1946, decommissioned and went into reserve 30 June 1947.
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