Cika wannan jumla: Waɗannan darussan sun ƙare ba zato ba tsammani a ranar 15 ga Agusta lokacin da
Kasar Japan ta mika wuya. "Whiteside" ya koma Subic Bay a ranar 16 ga watan Agusta kuma ya kasance a can har zuwa ranar 20, lokacin da ya koma Batangas a Luzon don ɗaukar abubuwa na 1st Cavalry Division don aikin aiki a Japan. A ranar 24 ga watan Agusta, ta bar Batangas tare da Task Force (TF) 33, sojojin da ke Tokyo. Bayan tsayawa na sa'o'i 48 a Subic Bay, wanda guguwa ta haifar, ta isa Yokohama, Japan, a ranar 2 ga Satumba, ranar bikin mika wuya da aka gudanar a jirgin a Tokyo Bay. A cikin kwanaki biyu masu zuwa, ta sauke dakarun da suka shiga jirgi da kayan aikinsu kuma, a ranar 4 ga watan, ta kafa hanya zuwa Leyte.