These continued until the 22d, when the fast carriers returned to Ulithi.

On 19 June, the battleship was again operating with the fast carriers.

For the remaining weeks of the war, she screened the fast carriers during the final raids on the Japanese home islands.

She got underway on the 27th with 61 more planes, and joined the fast carriers on the 31st.

This was the first time in almost two years that a Japanese submarine successfully attacked a ship operating with fast carriers.

This made them the only Japanese battleships fully suited to operations alongside fast carriers.

The Navy also has several auxiliary vessels such as fast personal carriers and replenishment ships.

Toward the center of this powerful assembly rode two fast carriers, the cause of the task force and its mighty arm.

When the destroyer put to sea again, she began screening the fast carriers of TF 77.

She rejoined the fast carriers three days later as they conducted bombing and photographic missions over Kyūshū.