 "Baham" stood out of Charleston, South Carolina, on 1 September, and shaped a course north to the Chesapeake Bay, where she devoted about a month to shakedown training.She got underway on 8 October, and proceeded via Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Canal Zone.After transiting the Panama Canal, "Baham" headed for Hawaii, and reached Pearl Harbor, on Armistice Day 1944.