Bagley returned to the United States after the sinking of the Jacob Jones and become the commander of the new destroyer USS Lea (DD-118) then under construction at Philadelphia Navy Yard and put her into commission on October 2, 1918 and commanded her until January1919 when he became the American port officer at Rotterdam, Netherlands, with the additional duty as naval attache in the American legation at The Hague.
INTERWAR YEARS
Bagley had attache and shore duty until March 1922 when he was given command of the USS Reno (DD-303, and commander of Destroyer Division 32, Pacific Fleet. In 1924, he had another two-year stint at the Naval Academy.
From there, in 1926, he became chief of staff to the Commander, Naval Forces, Europe
He returned to sea in December 1931 as commanding officer of the heavy cruiser USS Pensacola (CA-24) then serving on the Atlantic with Cruiser Division 4, Scouting Fleet untill 1933 when he went to Washington, D.C. for duty at the Bureau of Navigation and later became assistant bureau chief.
--Cooter
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