 After this tour, he supervised the fitting-out of escort carrier "Glacier" (CVE-33) at the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Company and went on to supervise the same kind of activities of "Liscome Bay" (CVE-56).Wiltsie would command this escort carrier until the ship's loss off Makin, in the Gilbert Islands, in the autumn of 1943.In the predawn darkness of 24 November 1943, I-175 torpedoed "Liscome Bay"—the flagship of Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix—and started fires among bombs and ammunition.