 On 4 February, "Sage" departed Subic Bay; returned briefly to Leyte; then sailed east to Guam; whence she set a course for Ulithi where she staged for Operation Iceberg, the invasion of the Ryukyus.By 20 March, she had left the western Carolines behind and was moving northwest with task group TG 52.4.From the 24th to the 31st, she helped clear the way for the forces approaching Kerama Retto and Okinawa.