sentences:  While steaming in convoy from Oran to Bizerte on 20 April 1944, she helped repulse a determined German air attack which sank three ships, including .After returning to Naples on 20 June, "Speed" operated in the Gulf of Salerno until 7 August preparing for the invasion of southern France.Assigned to Task Force 87, she departed Salerno on 12 August and escorted an LCI convoy to the assault area off Fréjus and St. Raphael.