On 16 August 1945, William M. Hobby got underway for Hawaii. Reaching Pearl Harbor on 22 August 1945, she got underway on 24 August 1945 for the Marshall Islands, in company with high-speed transports USS Ira Jeffrey (APD-44) and USS Blessman (APD-48), and arrived at Eniwetok on 1 September 1945. Pushing on to the Philippines, she anchored in Manila Bay on 5 September 1945. William M. Hobby cruised in the Philippine Islands—touching at Subic Bay, Zamboanga, Mindanao, Bugo, Macajalar Bay, and San Pedro Bay—until she departed for Okinawa, and from thence to Japan.
