Searching For Japanese Submarine I-12
When Ulvert M. Moore had refueled there, urgent orders sent her to sea to join a hunter-killer group based around USS Corregidor (CVE-58) which was searching for Japanese submarine I-12. That Japanese submarine had torpedoed and sunk the American merchantman SS John A. Johnson on 30 October. Corregidor's unit, designated Task Group (TG) 12.3, operated between Hawaii and the west coast until 19 November, when it returned to Pearl Harbor.
After repairs alongside USS Yosemite (AD-19) from 20 to 23 November, Ulvert M. Moore put to sea on the 24th with TG 12.4, centered around USS Tulagi (CVE-72), bound for the Carolines, via Eniwetok in the Marshalls. TG 12.4 conducted antisubmarine patrols en route and reached Eniwetok on 2 December and Ulithi on the 7th. Upon its arrival at the latter, the group was reclassifled TG 30.6. The destroyer escort and her mates then operated on antisubmarine patrols in an area from the Marianas in the north to the Palaus in the south.
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