 Early on 15 August, she put troops of the U.S. 36th Infantry Division ashore east of Saint-Raphaël in the Golfe de Fréjus.As its target, "Camel" Force assaulted the best defended section of the coast, an area where the Argens River flows into the Mediterranean, and the hard fighting there kept "Bayfield" in the vicinity of the Golfe de Fréjus for almost a month.She returned to Naples on 10 September and three days later received orders to join a transatlantic convoy at Oran.