"Bangor" reported for shakedown training off Bermuda on 3 December 1944, and, after four weeks of intensive drills, set a course for the Norfolk Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Virginia, for post-shakedown repairs.On 21 January 1945, "Bangor" joined Task Force (TF) 67 on convoy escort duty and, two days later, took station in the antisubmarine screen of a large convoy bound for North Africa.