"Kitkun Bay" celebrated her 1,000th landing with cake on 21 June 1944. At noon, Laws slipped alongside "Kitkun Bay" as the two ships rolled in the swells and transferred a Japanese prisoner to the carrier. The destroyer had picked up the 19-year-old Sumatran when she discovered him floating in a raft two days before. The man served with the Japanese and flew a patrol from Yap (Waab) in the Caroline Islands to Rota in the Marianas, and unsuccessfully attacked Gambier Bay on the 17th. "Kitkun Bay"s security detachment temporarily incarcerated the prisoner in the ship's brig.