On 20 February , '' Mission Bay '' steamed from New York with a load of Army planes and personnel for India , stopping at Recife , Brazil , and Cape Town , Union of South Africa , before arriving at Karachi on 29 March . By 12 May , she was back at Portsmouth . On the 28th , the carrier departed New York again on another trip to North Africa . '' Mission Bay '' arrived Casablanca on 6 June to steam for home 2 days later , entering the New York channel on the 17th . That same day she collided with a dredge and had to continue on to Portsmouth for repairs , mooring on 22 June . On 8 September , '' Mission Bay '' steamed from Portsmouth for the South Atlantic . After refueling at Dakar , French West Africa ( now Senegal ) on 20 September , she conducted antisubmarine operations into November ending at Portsmouth on the 25th . Her next cruise from Portsmouth on 21 December took her to the Caribbean for exercises between Mayport , Florida and Guantánamo Bay , Cuba into March 1945 . In February , '' Mission Bay '' was ordered to sail in the direction of Gibraltar to meet on the 23rd , and escort the heavy cruiser returning in convoy from the Yalta Conference from 4 – 11 February , with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and party embarked . '' Mission Bay '' left the convoy en route to Newport News , Virginia , mooring at Bermuda , British West Indies on the 27th before continuing on to Portsmouth to arrive 9 March
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
USS Mission Bay