Reporting to the Atlantic Fleet, she acted as escort to a westbound convoy to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and then returned to New York for her post-shakedown overhaul.

On 29 October, Bache departed Leyte en route to the United States for yard overhaul.

She suffered slight damage on 3 May, when an enemy kamikaze aircraft overshot the ship and crashed into the sea.

Fires were brought under control within 20 minutes and she was towed to Kerama Retto, Okinawa, for temporary repairs.

In 1950, Bache was converted to an escort destroyer at Boston Navy Yard (reclassified DDE-470 on 2 January 1951) and recommissioned on 1 October 1951.

At some point, Bache was equipped with a Weapon Alpha anti-submarine rocket launcher, in place of gun turret number 2, as a means of modernizing her capabilities.