Rịba ama amaokwu a dị n'okpuru ma zaa ajụjụ ahụ mgbe e mesịrị n'otu asụsụ ahụ dị ka amaokwu ahụ:  Passage: Clearing Norfolk's Chesapeake Bay on 10 October 1942, Cleveland sonyeere otu ndị ọrụ na Bermuda (na 29 October) maka mbuso agha nke North Africa. Ọkụ ya kwadoro ịbata na Fedhala, French Morocco na 8 Nọvemba, ọ nọgidekwara na patrol ruo 12 Nọvemba, laghachi na Norfolk na 24 Nọvemba. Cleveland kwọrọ ụgbọ mmiri gaa Pacific na 5 Disemba 1942, wee rute na Efate Island na 16 Jenụwarị. Ọrụ mbụ ya n'ịkwado Solomon Islands bụ na Task Force 18 (TF 18) iji chebe ndị agha ndị agha na Guadalcanal site na 27 ruo 31 Jenụwarị, Cleveland gbara ndị iro ọkụ ka ọ na-abịa n'okpuru mwakpo ikuku siri ike na Agha nke Rennell Island na 29-30 Jenụwarị. Na-esonye TF 68, Cleveland steamed "The Slot" na 6 Machị 1943 iji gbaa bọmbụ ụgbọ elu ndị Japan na Vila na Kolombangara, wee sonye na ọrụ abalị nke mikpuru ndị na-ebibi Minegumo na Murasame na agha nke Blackett Strait. Ka na TF 68, "Merrill's Marauders", Cleveland gbara na bọmbụ nke Shortland Islands na June 30 ma nye nkwado egbe maka mwakpo mwakpo na Munda, New Georgia na July 12. Mgbe obere oge nke mmezi na Sydney, Australia, Cleveland gara maka mwakpo nke Treasury Islands na 26-27 October. Ndị otu ọrụ ya na-agba ụgbọ mmiri iji gbapụ agwaetiti Buka na Bonis na 1 Nọvemba iji kwado ndị agha na-awakpo Bougainville, na-agbaga n'ebe ndịda n'otu ụbọchị ahụ iji kpochapụ isi na Shortlands, na n'abalị ahụ gbochiri ndị agha Japan na Agha nke Empress Augusta Bay nke ga-emeri ya. Cleveland jiri igwe radar ya gbaa ndị agha Japan anọ ahụ ihe karịrị otu elekere, na-enye aka n'imebi Sendai, wee chụsoo ụgbọ mmiri ndị ahụ na-agba ọsọ ruo mgbe chi bọrọ. A wakporo ya site n'ikuku ma otu bọmbụ kụkasịa Cleveland nke ukwuu, bụ́ onye zaghachiri site n'iti ọtụtụ ụgbọelu ndị iro. Ọ laghachiri na Buka maka bọmbụ ọzọ na 23 Disemba, mgbe ahụ na-agagharị n'etiti Truk na Green Island, Papua New Guinea...  Ajụjụ: Olee mgbe o rutere Okinawa?
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