Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan shakedown daga San Diego, "Janar M. B. Stewart" ya tashi daga San Francisco 2 Afrilu 1945 tare da fiye da sojoji 3,000 zuwa Pearl Harbor. Bayan ya koma San Francisco a ranar 18 ga Afrilu tare da tsoffin sojoji 1,500, ya yi tafiya daga San Francisco daga ranar 26 ga Afrilu zuwa 19 ga Yuni don safarar sojoji zuwa Pearl Harbor; tsibirin Admiralty; da Leyte, tsibirin Philippine. Daga nan sai ya bar San Francisco a ranar 26 ga Yuni don ayyukan Atlantic. Ya isa Norfolk ranar 11 ga Yuli, sai ya tashi zuwa Leghorn, Italiya, inda ya isa ranar 5 ga watan Agusta don shiga sojojin don sake sakewa a cikin Pacific. A ranar 7 ga watan Agusta don Canal na Panama, "Janar M. B. Stewart" ya tashi zuwa gabas ta Gabas bayan da
Jafananci sun mika wuya kuma sun isa 19 ga watan Agusta don saukar da fasinjojinsa.