Seeadler Harbor
On 4 August, she cleared the Marianas for Eniwetok and Seeadler Harbor, reaching the latter port on 13 August. Almost a month later, on 10 September, she put to sea to support the landings on Morotai in the Netherlands East Indies. Those landings went off without opposition on 15 September, and "Suwannee" returned to Seeadler Harbor to prepare for the invasion of the Philippines.