World War II North Atlantic Operations
Following shakedown off Bermuda, Moore steamed to Norfolk, Virginia, where she reported for duty with task force TF 63, then escorted merchant convoys, beginning 10 September 1943. Before the end of the year she had transited the Atlantic to North Africa twice. On 13 January 1944, she relieved USS Decker (DE-47) for a month of operations off the New England coast under Com Fleet Air Wing, Quonset Point, Rhode Island. In March, she sailed to Casco Bay, Maine, for abbreviated training exercises and then headed south to Norfolk where she joined task group TG 24.14 and sailed, on the 15th, in the screen of USS Tripoli (CVE-64) for antisubmarine patrol duty west of the Cape Verde Islands. A unit of the U.S. 4th Fleet for under 2 months, she returned to Norfolk, 27 April, and, in May, continued her patrols with Tripoli in the North Atlantic, from Bermuda to Argentia, Newfoundland, in TG 22.4.
Detached for the month of July, she conducted coastal operations and escort work, and completed one escort run to Bermuda before resuming operations with TG 22.4, assigned this time to USS Core (CVE-13). For the remainder of the war in Europe she operated with Core, cruising along the east coast and in the western Atlantic from Cuba to Newfoundland.
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