At the end of April "Perkins" joined TF 10 for tactical training and in May she returned to Australia to join the forces gathering for the thrust up the New Guinea coast to gain control of the Huon Peninsula. Into the summer the base at Milne Bay grew. At the end of June, Allied amphibious forces moved into Nassau Bay, just south of Salamaua, and into the Trobriands. Infantry units pressed toward Salamaua-Australians from Wau in the foothills of the Owen Stanley Range and Americans from Nassau Bay. PT boats punched at the enemy's Finschhafen-Lae supply line and AAF and RAAF planes bombed and strafed Japanese installations as far as Wewak and Madang.