 Detached from Bermudan duty in June, "Owl" spent the last six months of 1943 with DesRon 30 operating out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.She then steamed back to Norfolk, Virginia, for overhaul, and sailed for Europe.She arrived at Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, 14 March 1944 to join the Allied forces gathering for the invasion of France.