Kammala wannan jumla: Bayan an ba da umurni, "Bismarck Sea" ya shiga cikin horarwa a yammacin Coast a watan Yuni. Ranar 1 ga watan Yuli, ta bar San Pedro da ke jigilar jiragen sama da matukan jirgi zuwa Pearl Harbor. Bayan ya sauke jirginsa, sai ya sake ɗaukar wasu jiragen sama kuma ya kai su zuwa tsibirin Marshall, ya isa Majuro Atoll a ranar 16 ga Yuli. Daga nan sai ya koma Pearl Harbor, yana dauke da jiragen sama da suka lalace, ya isa ranar 29 ga Yuli, tare da 'yar'uwarta. A cikin watan Agusta, an kafa ta a San Diego don gyara makonni hudu, inda ta karbi rundunar sojan sama ta yaki, Squadron Squadron (VC) 86. Tsakanin 7 ga Satumba, da 16 ga Oktoba, ta shiga cikin ƙarin horo. Daga nan sai ya tashi zuwa Ulithi, Caroline Islands, don shiga Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid na 7th Fleet a ranar 1 ga Nuwamba. Tsakanin 14 da 23 ga Nuwamba, ta yi aiki a Leyte da Mindanao don tallafawa
ayyukan a cikin Leyte. A ranar 21 ga Nuwamba, wani jirgin saman Japan ya yi tafiya tare da mai ɗaukar jirgin, amma ba tare da haifar da wata lahani ba, kuma ya tsere zuwa arewa maso yamma kafin a iya shiga.