Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ƙarshen Janairu 1942 sufurin ya bar New York zuwa Ostiraliya ya dawo a watan Afrilu sannan a watan Mayu ya kai sojoji zuwa Iceland da Glasgow. Daga Glasgow jirgin ya tafi Cape Town, Afirka ta Kudu, kafin ya koma New York a watan Agusta don shirya don mamaye Arewacin Afirka
8<unk>16 Nuwamba 1942. Bayan saukar jirgin, jirgin ya koma New York don yin tafiye-tafiye na yau da kullun zuwa tashar jiragen ruwa na Afirka da Turai har zuwa Mayu-Yuni 1944 lokacin da jirgin ya sami babban gyara. Da an canja jirgin zuwa Navy kuma an kira shi USS "J. W. McAndrew" (AP-47) a 1943, amma an soke wannan. Manyan tashoshin jiragen ruwa da aka yi amfani da su tsakanin fitowar Arewacin Afirka da ƙarshen yaƙin sune Oran, Casablanca, Algiers, Gibraltar, Belfast, Clyde, Naples, Plymouth da Southampton kuma bayan fitowar Normandy Cherbourg da Le Havre.