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After [[Shakedown (testing)|shakedown]], Lovelace departed Norfolk on 2 January 1944 never to return to the east coast of the United States. This [[flagship]] of [[Destroyer Escort Division 37]] picked up convoys at [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|Guantanamo]], the [[Panama Canal Zone]], and the [[Society Islands]] as she steamed across the southern [[Pacific]] to [[Noumea]], [[New Caledonia]], arriving on 8 February.
Escort and screening duties in the [[Solomon Islands]] preceded her departure on 19 April for the [[New Guinea]] battle zone. Arriving off [[Jayapura|Hollandia]] (now [[Jayapura]], [[Indonesia]]) without incident on 24 April, she screened the debarking of the second wave of relief troops. Later ''Lovelace'' interrupted her New Guinea coastal patrol and escort missions on 8 July to bombard beach targets at [[Toem]] and on 22 July entered a floating [[drydock]] at [[Milne Bay]]. A more important cessation from an almost continuous sailing schedule occurred a month later at New Caledonia, where new 20
''Lovelace'' left the [[Melanesian]] groups on 15 October sailing northwest to the [[Kossol Straits]], [[Palau Islands]], and then westward to [[Leyte Gulf]]. She arrived on 25 October just as a major naval battle was beginning some sixty miles away. While protecting [[7th Fleet]] replenishment units, she [[Catastrophic kill|splashed]] her first enemy plane on 26 October. Six days later en route to Kossol Straits the screen was heavily attacked by [[kamikaze|suicide planes]], but the convoy fought through. On 21 November ''Lovelace'' was credited with an assist in [[Catastrophic kill|downing]] an enemy bomber attacking its Hollandia-bound convoy.
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==External links==
* {{navsource|06/198|USS Lovelace}}
{{Buckley class destroyer escort}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lovelace (DE-198)}}
[[Category:Buckley-class destroyer escorts]]
[[Category:Ships built in Norfolk, Virginia]]
[[Category:World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States]]
[[Category:1943 ships]]
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