Arriving at San Diego on the afternoon of 8 December, "Anderson" steamed to the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, San Pedro, California, the day after Christmas, and underwent an overhaul there through the first week of January 1941. Then, after operating locally out of Long Beach and San Diego, "Anderson" took a departure from San Diego on the morning of 14 January and rendezvoused with "Enterprise" and off San Pedro. The force conducted drills and exercises en route to the Hawaiian Islands, reaching Pearl Harbor on the morning of 21 January.