After the formal surrender on 2 September, "Indiana" steamed into Tokyo Bay on the 5th. Over the course of the next week, "Indiana" was moored in the harbor and used to process POWs, including 54 USN personnel, 28 marines, 64 civilians, and a number of US Army and Canadian soldiers. On 15 September, she got underway in company with the destroyer , bound for California. She was forced to steam at a speed of since her number 3 shaft had locked up and could not be used. On the way, her crew conducted a variety of shooting drills. The two ships reached Pearl Harbor on 22 September before "Indiana" continued on the next day for San Francisco, which she reached on 29 September. There, she disembarked 1,013 passengers.