on 30 december she got underway for another invasion, this time luzon. arriving in lingayen gulf 9 january 1945, she unloaded in 2 days and returned to leyte to embark units of the 38th infantry division, assigned to cut off a japanese retreat into the bataan peninsula. completing the mission off the coast of zambales province 29 january, she steamed for ulithi, joined servron 10, and underwent alterations to enable her to transfer cargo at sea. on 26 february she completed her first such operation and for the next 51 days remained at sea replenishing the fast carriers off okinawa. she then proceeded to san francisco, california, arriving 12 june for conversion to a store-issues ship. she was reclassified aks 20, 31 july and completed conversion in september 1945.