USS Smalley, a 2050-ton Fletcher class destroyer built at Seattle, Washington, was commissioned in March 1944. Her first wartime operation was a brief escort mission to Hawaii in June-July 1944, followed by deployment to the Aleutians area. While stationed in the North Pacific during the next eight months, she periodically bombarded Japanese positions in the Kuril Islands. Smalley was sent to the Central Pacific in May 1945, screened USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) during a strike in the Marshalls, then moved further west to support operations from Okinawa to the Bonins. Following the end of the Pacific War, Smalley returned to the United States. She was decommissioned at Charleston, South Carolina, in January 1947.
The Korean War crisis brought Smalley back into the active fleet in July 1951. She made one combat tour toward the end of the conflict, returning to the U.S. in late 1953 by way of the Indian Ocean and the Middle East. The destroyer deployed to Northern Europe and the Mediterranean in 1955 and had a cruise with the Middle East Force in 1957 that included a voyage around Africa. Smalley decommissioned following arrival back in the United States. She remained in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until stricken from the Navy list in April 1965 and was sold for scrapping in January 1966.
This page features all our views of USS Smalley.
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In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Smalley (DD-565). The following list features some of these images:
The images listed below are NOT in
the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our
page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".
Launching of USS Smalley (DD-565) at Seattle, Washington, 27 October 1943. The view shows the ship from off the starboard side, slightly toward the bow, immediately after she was launched. Tugs are beginning to move her to a fitting out berth. Port bow aerial view of USS Smalley (DD-565), taken circa the mid-1950s, after the ship was fitted with a tripod foremast and new radars. This view was received by the Naval Photographic Center in December 1959, but was actually taken earlier in the decade.
Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center. The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions". |
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Page made 11 July 2001