She steamed out of Boston again on 10 January 1945 to conduct further training exercises in the vicinity of Bermuda . At the completion of this assignment , '' Springfield '' cleared the area for Norfolk on the 13th . She remained in the Norfolk area and engaged in upkeep and gunnery drills in the Chesapeake Bay until 23 January . That morning , she weighed anchor and joined Task Group ( TG ) 21.5 off the entrance to Thimble Shoal Channel to accompany on the first leg of the heavy cruiser 's voyage to Malta carrying President Roosevelt . There , the President would board a plane to take him to the Crimea for the " Big Three " conference at Yalta . On the 28th , at a point about south of the Azores , the ships of TG 21.5 were relieved by another group of American warships , and '' Springfield '' headed for the Panama Canal . She transited the canal on 5 February and arrived in Pearl Harbor on the 16th
conference at Yalta
Yalta Conference
USS Springfield (CL-66)