Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei waahanga - Kua oti te whakatika, ka rere te "Hovey" ki Pearl Harbor i te 29 o Hurae hei rangatira mo te Mine Squadron Two (Kōmihana W. R. Loud). I wehe ia mai i Port Purvis i te Moutere o Florida, i te Solomon Islands, i te Mahuru 6 hei waahanga o te mata anti-submarine mo te Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf's Western Gunfire Support Group mo nga mahi i te tonga o Palaus. Whai muri i nga whiu i waenga i nga Moutere o Angaur me Peleliu me te Kossol Passage, ka tiimata te "Hovey" ki te tirotiro anti-submarine i te rohe kawe mai i Peleliu Island. I uru ia ki te Minesweeping and Hydrographic Group of Rear Admiral Thomas Sprague's Escort Carrier Group mo te whakaekenga o Leyte
(17<unk>25 Oketopa 1944). I te 17 o nga ra, ka tiimata tana neke atu i nga waka tere tere me nga kaipuke tautoko ahi i te whakatata atu ki nga takutai taunga i te Moutere o Dinagat. Whai muri i etahi atu tirotiro i Looc Bay me te huarahi Tacloban-Dulag, ka hoki a "Hovey" ki Manus i te Oketopa 25.