Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 7 ga Disamba, 1941, "Gamble" ya dawo daga sintiri a bakin teku, lokacin da jirginsa na zaman lafiya ya rushe ta farko daga cikin jirage masu jigilar jiragen sama na Japan wanda ya kai hari ga jiragen ruwa na Amurka a tashar jiragen ruwa. "Gamble's gunners sun shiga wuta na sauran jiragen ruwa kuma sun ga jirgin saman abokan gaba ya fada cikin ruwa a kan tashar tashar jiragen ruwa. Bayan harin da ta dauka anti-submarine sintiri tashar a cikin allon na jirgin sama m, kuma daga baya tsare da hanyoyin zuwa Pearl Harbor. A tsakiyar watan Fabrairun 1942, ta tafi kudu a cikin rakiyar wani jirgi zuwa Pago Pago, Samoa, sa'an nan kuma ya shiga cikin shimfiɗa filin karewa a Tutuila. A ƙarshen Maris, masu aikin hakar ma'adinai biyu sun koma tsibirin Fiji, don shimfida filin ma'adinai a cikin ruwan Nadi daga 7 zuwa 14 ga Afrilu. Komawa zuwa Pearl Harbor don yin amfani da makamai masu yawa, "Gamble" ya taimaka wajen kare jiragen ruwa zuwa Midway a lokacin wannan muhimmiyar tarihi
, sa'an nan kuma ya tafi kudu tare da kuma kafa wani minefield tsaro daga ƙofar na biyu Channel, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Islands.