 She steamed again for Pearl Harbor on 21 April, to escort convoys to the Marshalls through July.On 4 October she got underway from Eniwetok to Manus, Admiralty Islands, to stage for the invasion of the Philippines.Arriving in Leyte Gulf on 24 October, she conducted minesweeping operations and anti-submarine patrols, and searched for survivors of sunken ships and downed aircraft.