Kammala wannan magana: "Gustafson" ya bar Guantanamo Bay a ranar 24 ga Yuli 1945 kuma ya wuce Canal na Panama a ranar 27 a kan hanyar zuwa San Diego, California. Ta tashi zuwa Hawaii a ranar 9 ga watan Agusta don a sake gyara shi da karin bindigogi na bindigogi don hidimar Pacific kuma yana cikin teku lokacin da aka kashe shi.
An dakatar da tashin hankali tare da Japan a ranar 15 ga Agusta, 1945. Gidansa na Pearl Harbor, ya yi aiki a matsayin jirgi mai kula da yanayi a arewacin Hawaii don sauran shekara, daga nan ta hanyar San Diego don komawa bakin tekun Atlantic.