 She underwent a second conversion in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard during which she received equipment that enabled her to serve as a maintenance headquarters to repair electronic equipment and to issue stores.Those modifications were completed during the first week in January 1945; and the ship put to sea on 10 January 1945, bound for the Central Pacific.Steaming by way of Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, "Baham" arrived at her first duty station, Ulithi Atoll, in the Western Carolines, on 30 January 1945, and began her multifaceted repair duties as a unit of Service Squadron (ServRon) 10.