 Arriving on 14 January 1945 she steamed to New York for overhaul, returning to Virginia in March to take on vehicles for Pearl Harbor.Underway on 1 April, she joined a convoy for the Panama Canal Zone, thence, on 15 May, steamed north to San Francisco where she loaded explosives and ammunition for use in the western Pacific.By the end of June she had discharged her Hawaiian cargo and by 6 July was en route to Eniwetok and Guam.