Badassbueller wrote:
I would hesitate to guess that the lack of forum participants is soley down to the fact of no notifications of posts ~look how long it took me to respond to this
World War II
Soley sailed on 29 December 1944 for a shakedown cruise in Bermuda waters. On 1 February 1945, she headed back toward the Brooklyn Navy Yard for post-shakedown availability before joining the Atlantic Fleet at Norfolk, Virginia, on 18 February. After serving in the Virginia Capes area as a training ship, she was ordered to the west coast.