sentences:  "Benner" joined what eventually became a six-carrier task force in the region and, over the next eight weeks, helped to protect supply convoys to the beleaguered Nationalist garrison on Quemoy until the crisis eased.After brief stops at Yokosuka and Midway, the destroyer returned to Long Beach on 21 November.The warship spent the next seven months in the Long Beach area, either conducting local operations or in a tender availability and upkeep status.