 In March 1918 he was ordered to and in August 1918 reported as executive officer of , which was engaged in convoy service before the Armistice and later returned troops from France.He was executive officer of the ex-German battleship "Osfriesland", which was placed in commission early in 1920 at Rosyth, Scotland, and brought to the United States with the ex-German light cruiser "Frankfurt" in tow.He was aide and flag secretary to Admiral Hilary P. Jones, commander in chief of United States Fleet in 1922 and in 1923 was ordered to the Naval Academy, where he served as executive officer in the Department of Navigation and later as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering.