 On 30 August, she put in at Naples, and after calling at several western Mediterranean ports, the destroyer arrived at New York 3 October for overhaul.Exercises, patrols, and hunts for submarines along the east coast occupied "Frankford" until 21 January 1945, when she sailed from Norfolk for a rendezvous off the Azores.Here she joined the screen for the cruiser , carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Malta.