Between 10 March 1946 and 9 April 1947, "George" deployed with the United States Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific. She operated along the Japanese coast and steamed to Tsingtao and Shanghai, China, where she supported American and Chinese Nationalist troops during occupation operations against the Communists in North China. From 1947 to 1951, she served with Escort Division 31, attached to the Fleet Sonar School at Pearl Harbor. "George" moved to San Diego with the Fleet Sonar School in 1951, and served there until undergoing overhaul at Pearl Harbor in the spring of 1953. Following return to San Diego in September 1953, she sailed for Sasebo, Japan, on 10 November, and conducted hunter-killer and screening operations in Japanese, Korean, and Okinawan waters. She returned to San Diego on 25 June 1954, and for more than a year, she operated out of San Diego along the coast of southern California.