Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe mwakpo ahụ a wakporo Pearl Harbor gasịrị, a chọrọ ụgbọ agha ngwa ngwa na Pacific na Hughes si Norfolk, Virginia na 18 Disemba 1941, rute San Diego, California na ụlọ ọrụ, na 30 Disemba. Ọ hapụrụ San Diego na 12 Jenụwarị 1942 ka ọ bụrụ onye na-eso ụgbọ mmiri na-eweta nkwado na Samoa. "Hughes" wee si Samoa gawa dị ka akụkụ nke ndị agha na-ebu ụgbọelu wuru gburugburu ụgbọelu "Yorktown". Ọ na-ekpuchi ụgbọelu ahụ na mwakpo na Jaluit, Makin, Mili, na Canton Islands, mgbe ahụ kwadoro "Yorktown" Task Force 17 (TF17), ka ọ na-awakpo isi ndị Japan na Lae na Salamaua na 10 March 1942. N'ịbụ onye na-efunahụ Agha nke Oké Osimiri Coral mgbe ọ na-eso ụgbọ mmiri na-ebu mmanụ ụgbọala gaa Nouméa, "Hughes" ruru Pearl Harbor n'oge iji sonye na Agha Coral.
Agha nke Midway.