 A second escort voyage to Leyte in early November 1944 was less eventful.Concluding her New Guinea patrols, "Muskogee" arrived in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, on 15 December 1944, then reported at Dutch Harbor, Territory of Alaska, on 12 January 1945 for similar duty in the Aleutian Islands.Selected for transfer to the Soviet Navy in Project Hula – a secret program for the transfer of U.S. Navy ships to the Soviet Navy at Cold Bay, Alaska, in anticipation of the Soviet Union joining the war against Japan – "Muskogee" departed Adak on 6 July 1945 bound for Seattle, Washington.