sentences:  While the ship was moored at Boston on 1 January 1945, her name was expanded to Thomas J. Gary.She completed her last Atlantic convoy upon her arrival at New York on 7 May and spent the remainder of the month preparing for service in the Pacific.Following refresher training in the Caribbean, she departed waters of the coast of Haiti on 22 June; steamed - via the Panama Canal - to the west coast; and departed San Diego on 12 July with the convoy bound for Hawaii.