A convoy mission to Samoa was completed at Pearl Harbor on 24 May.

Since he could not dissuade the admiral from the convoy mission, he had at least tried his best to guarantee its safe arrival.

He had asked Fitzie to look around for some more profitable jobs for him to do, and eventually, his friend got himtworking a few convoy missions.

And we might be teamed with a Brit for the convoy mission.

Another convoy mission was undertaken to the Philippines on 25 August 1944.

The next convoy mission (HI-79) to Singapore from 26 October 1944 - 9 November 1944 was uneventful.

During convoy missions escorting merchant vessels she performed a rescue, saving four survivors of a torpedo attack.

The convoy mission was eventually carried out by other soldiers without incident.

A series of new convoy missions brought McKee to San Francisco, California on 15 November.

Defiant flew her next convoy mission without sustaining so much as a scratch in battle damage.