 On 18 January 1945, the vessel was renamed "Rescue" and redesignated (AH-18).Following a period of sea trials, the new hospital ship got underway for the Pacific Ocean theater of action.She arrived off Okinawa on 13 June, embarked men wounded in the fighting ashore, survived unscathed despite almost constant Japanese air attack against Allied shipping in the area, and safely delivered her patients to a hospital on Guam.