World War II
Following shakedown training in the West Indies, Wadleigh rendezvoused in the mid-Atlantic with Iowa, Halsey Powell, and Marshall. The three destroyers escorted the battleship as she carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt back to the United States from talks with other Allied leaders at the Cairo Conference.
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