 Complete the following phrase:  Bryant returned to Eniwetok Atoll on 5 August and settled in alongside for 10 days of engineering repairs. Following a six-day tender availability at Purvis Bay, she stood out to sea on 6 September for the Palaus. During the morning watch of the 12th, Bryant approached Peleliu in the destroyer screen of Task Group 32.5 TG 32.5, which consisted of the flagship , , , and . When firing positions had been achieved, the roar of the battlewagons guns heralded the opening of a three-day long pattern of rotating bombardment by air and sea. Daily, Bryant took leave of her screening duties with the capital ships to close the beach and dump 40-millimeter rounds on enemy positions which threatened the operations of the underwater demolition teams UDTs. On 16 September, the day after the initial 