sentences:  Following a rigorous period of drills, which would serve her well in the months to come, "Highlands" sailed to San Francisco to embark her troops, and got underway 23 November for Hawaii.Arriving Pearl Harbor 29 November, the ship again turned to amphibious training, in preparation for the epochal Iwo Jima landings, one of the most important steps in the Navy's island campaign that drove relentlessly toward Japan.