Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe ọ kwụsịrị n'ụsọ oké osimiri Maine, "Herndon" sooro ndị njem si New York City gaa Casablanca, laghachi na New York 14 May 1943 na-eso ụgbọ mmiri. Site na Norfolk na 8 June, ọ ruru Algiers na 24 June ma kwadebe maka ọrụ dị mkpa na
Mgbasa Ozi Sicily. Ka ndị agha amphibious Allied n'okpuru iwu nke General Dwight D. Eisenhower bidoro mwakpo mbụ na "ọkpụkpụ dị nro nke Europe" na 10 July 1943, "Herndon" rụrụ ọrụ nchebe ụgbọ mmiri na-arụ ọrụ yana nkwado ọkụ maka Lieutenant General George S. Patton's US 7th Army na General Bernard L. Montgomery's British 8th Army. Ka ọ hapụrụ Oké Osimiri Mediterenian n'abalị atọ n'ọnwa Ọgọstụ, "Herndon" nọrọ ọnwa itoolu na-esote na-eso ụgbọ mmiri ndị agha gafee Atlantic site na New York gaa n'ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri dị iche iche nke Britain ka nnukwu mmụba maka mbuso agha nke France kụrụ ihe. Na D-Day, 6 June 1944, "Herndon" nọ na Omaha Beach, n'ihu na "Bald-headed Row" n'ihu usoro mwakpo mbụ. N'agbanyeghị na ndị iro na-agba ya ezigbo égbè, ọ nọgidere na-awakpo ndị iro nọ n'ikpere mmiri.