Escorting FDR to the Malta Conference

The most important mission the USS Champlin had during the war came on January 31st, 1945.  They were instructed to be an escort of the USS Quincy in Task Force 21.5 from Gibraltar to Malta.  On board the USS Quincy was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was on his way to the Malta Conference.

FDR and Winston Churchill aboard the USS Quincy on February 2nd, 1945: