With shakedown in the Chesapeake Bay, the new large infantry landing craft departed Key West, Florida, on 12 November for the $3, transited the Panama Canal on the 19th, and arrived San Diego, California, on 1 December. There she joined LCI Group 57, sailed for Hawaii on 29 January 1945, and arrived Pearl Harbor on 7 February. On the afternoon of 2 September, the Japanese forces in the Palaus surrendered.