 Assigned to the hunter-killer group formed around the escort carrier , "Coffman" joined in training patrols and a voyage to Casablanca during which the group covered the movement of several convoys.Alternate periods of exercises and patrols continued until early in February 1945, when "Coffman" was ordered to join a group searching in stormy waters for a German weather ship reported south of Iceland.She returned to screen carriers during air training operations out of Quonset Point, Rhode Island, until April, when the German U-boats made their last great effort of the war, penetrating the eastern Atlantic in strength.