World War II North Atlantic Operations
Swenning moved to Galveston, Texas, to complete fitting out and sailed from there on the 28th en route to Bermuda on her shakedown cruise. The cruise ended at Charleston, South Carolina, where the ship entered the navy yard for a post-shakedown availability period.
She sailed for New York on 14 February as an escort for USS Wake Island (CVE-65) and USS Mission Bay (CVE-59). On the return voyage to Norfolk, Virginia, she was in the escort for convoy UGS-34 and arrived on 20 February. Six days later the ship stood out of Norfolk with Task Group (TG) 21.11, a "hunter-killer" antisubmarine group composed of USS Bogue (CVE-9), a destroyer, and three other escorts of Escort Division (CortDiv) 51.
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