 On 3 December, the escort ship cleared Norfolk on the first of three convoy assignments from Norfolk and New York to Casablanca.During the third of these, on 20 April 1944 her convoy came under attack by German torpedo bombers in the western Mediterranean, but none of the enemy planes came within range of "Fiske".Completing her Casablanca runs with her return to New York on 21 May 1944 "Fiske" joined the hunter-killer group formed around at Norfolk on 10 June.