Battle of the Komandorski Islands
"Salt Lake City" spent the next four months at Pearl Harbor undergoing repairs and replenishing. Late in March 1943, she departed for the Aleutian Islands and operated from Adak Island to prevent the Japanese from supporting their garrisons on Attu and Kiska. Operating in TF 8, "Salt Lake City" was accompanied by and four destroyers when they made contact on 26 March with some Japanese transports, escorted by the heavy cruisers and , the light cruisers "Tama" and "Abukuma", and four destroyers, led by Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya leading to the Battle of the Komandorski Islands.