The destroyer remained in the Mediterranean until sailing for New York on 3 September . After two weeks of experimental operations in Chesapeake Bay for the Naval Research Laboratory , '' Herndon '' headed back toward the Mediterranean as a convoy escort on 14 October . Returning to the United States on 12 November , she conducted battle exercises in Casco Bay and escorted convoys along the Atlantic coast through February 1945 . In that month . '' Herndon '' escorted President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the first leg of his voyage to the historic Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
USS Herndon (DD-638)