 She was commissioned as USS "ATA-192" on 23 January 1945 with Lieutenant, junior grade, W. C. Heck in command.After shakedown training in the Gulf of Mexico, "ATA-192" departed Galveston, Texas, on 21 February 1945, transited the Panama Canal on 28 February 1945, and headed north.After visits to Acapulco, Mexico; San Diego, California; and Portland, Oregon, "ATA-192" arrived in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, on 28 April 1945.