Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan harin da aka kai wa Pearl Harbor, ana buƙatar jiragen ruwa na gaggawa a cikin Pacific kuma Hughes ya tashi daga Norfolk, Virginia a ranar 18 ga Disamba, 1941, ya isa San Diego, California tare da, a ranar 30 ga Disamba. Ta tashi daga San Diego a ranar 12 ga Janairu 1942 a matsayin mai rakiyar jiragen ruwa da ke kawo karfafawa zuwa Samoa. "Hughes" sa'an nan kuma ya tashi daga Samoa a matsayin wani ɓangare na rundunar sojan da aka gina a kusa da mai ɗaukar "Yorktown". Ta kare mai ɗaukar hoto a cikin hare-haren Jaluit, Makin, Mili, da Canton Islands, sannan ta goyi bayan haɗin "Yorktown" Task Force 17 (TF17), yayin da ta kai hari kan sansanonin Japan a Lae da Salamaua a ranar 10 ga Maris, 1942. Ba a rasa yakin Coral Sea ba yayin da yake rakiyar jirgin ruwa mai dauke da man fetur zuwa Nouméa, "Hughes" ya isa Pearl Harbor a lokaci don shiga cikin yakin Midway
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