 "Samuel Huntington" next departed New York on 13 June for Oran as a part of Convoy UGS-10.Joining 74 other merchant ships and their 28 escorts, the "Huntington" made it safely to Oran on 5 July; another ship in the convoy was sunk by a U-boat.During her participation in Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, the "Huntington" and fellow liberty ships and all suffered casualties from an air attack on 1 August at Palermo.