These are the DECK LOGS for the USS DEFENSE for all of 1945.
Jump to the bottom of the page if you would like to know where I got them !

• January
  Maneuvers at Pearl Harbor - practice, practice, practice.
• February
  Eniwetok to Iwo Jima - in the shadow of Mt. Suribachi.
• March
  Iwo Jima to Okinawa - and into the fury of the Divine Wind.
• April
  Trying to stay alive on the radar picket line - and limping home.
  Also read the Anti-Aircraft Action Report for 6 April 1945.
• May
  Dodging subs on the way to Seattle.
• June
  In overhaul status - but it wasn't boring!
• July
  Still in overhaul, with a little shore patrol on the side.
• August
  Shore patrol, shore patrol, shore patrol.
• September
  From Seattle to Eniwetok via Pearl.
• October
  Surviving a typhoon at sea; James Bowell receives the Navy and Marine Corps Medal.
• November
  From Yokkaichi, Japan to Guam, Marianas Islands.
• December
  Commander Gordon ABBOTT goes home.

Deck logs from 1941 through 1969 are located in the Modern Military Branch, National Archives, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD 20740. For more information, visit

http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org9-2.htm

and

http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/nhcorg10.htm