Service History
Following shakedown and training off Bermuda, Milledgeville had duty with TF 24. Between 3 and 5 April, she sailed to NS Argentia, Newfoundland, and on the 7th she departed on her initial weather patrol in the North Atlantic. Until returning to Argentia on 26 April, she operated on Weather Station No. 1 gathering meteorological information and maintaining air-sea rescue patrols.
Between 11 May and 25 August, Milledgeville carried out three more patrols in North Atlantic waters; after which she steamed to Boston, Massachusetts, for overhaul during September. She returned to Argentia on 7 October; completed her 5th North Atlantic patrol on 29 October; and arrived back at Boston on 5 November to prepare for weather station duty in the South Atlantic.
Departing Boston on 16 November, Milledgeville sailed via Trinidad to Recife, Brazil, where she arrived on 1 December. Between 19 and 31 December, she patrolled Weather Station No. 12 off Brazil, then sailed to Trinidad and to Argentia, arriving off Newfoundland on 20 January 1946. Milledgeville resumed North Atlantic patrol duty on 21 January, and during the next several months she continued patrols while operating out of Argentia and Boston.
She was decommissioned at Boston on 21 August 1946, and she was sold to Southern Scrap Material Company of New Orleans, Louisiana, on 9 April 1946. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 23 April 1947. She was scrapped starting on 25 March 1948.
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