Pedro Bay to transfer her wounded and made emergency repairs. On 1 December, she got underway for the west coast, via Seeadler Harbor and Pearl Harbor, and entered the Mare Island Navy Yard on Christmas Eve for repairs. 1945 The ship began sea trials on 24 February 1945 and underwent refresher training out of San Diego, Calif. before departing the west coast on 7 March. After further training out of Pearl Harbor, the destroyer set a course on 25 March for the Philippines, via Eniwetok, Ulithi, and Kossol Roads. From Leyte, Aulick sailed on 12 April for Morotai, Netherlands East Indies. A week later, she departed for Mindanao Island with elements of the 31st Infantry Division embarked. After disembarking the invasion troops at Mindanao on 22 April, the destroyer escorted the LSTs back to Morotai and remained there through 30 April, before heading for San Pedro Bay. Post war After a period of upkeep, Aulick got underway for Okinawa, anchored off Hagushi beach on 16 May, and joined the antiaircraft and radar picket screen around the transports. She was destined to remain there through the end of World War II. From 24 August to 2 September, the destroyer was assigned air-sea rescue duties on the direct air lane between Okinawa and Tokyo. On 28 September, she rescued twelve crewmen from a downed B-32 Dominator. After being relieved of her lifeguard duties, Aulick departed Okinawa on 10 September, bound for home. She touched at Pearl Harbor, transited the Panama Canal, and arrived in New York harbor on 17 October. The destroyer participated in a Presidential fleet review on 27 October and entered the New York Navy Yard on 15 November to prepare for inactivation. She was decommissioned on 18 April 1946. Hellenic Navy Aulick was transferred, on loan, to the government of Greece on 21 August 1959. She served in the Hellenic Navy as Sfendoni (D85) ("Slingshot"). The ship was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 September 1975, and she was sold to Greece in April 1977. Sfendoni was stricken from the Greek Navy in 1991. She was scrapped in 1997 at Aliağa, Turkey. Legacy At the site were USS Aulick was built is a historical marker that reads: On September 9, 1940, a federal contract worth $82 million was issued to the Consolidated Steel Company to construct 12 Fletcher class naval destroyers here in Orange, Texas. This and