"manley" arrived at san diego on 23 may for overhaul. she was reclassified dd-74 on 25 june 1945 and sailed on 24 july for the pearl harbor navy yard, where she was fitted with a catapult for target drones. as she was helping train gunners to meet kamikaze attacks, the war ended and "manley" departed the hawaiian islands on 26 september for san diego, then via the panama canal to philadelphia naval shipyard, where she decommissioned on 19 november 1945.