|
Line#
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Day
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Mo
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Yr
|
Event
|
Location/Notes
|
|
A
|
10
|
3
|
1943
|
Keel Layed
|
Seattle, WA -
Seattle Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
|
|
B
|
19
|
11
|
1943
|
Launched
|
Seattle, WA
|
|
C
|
15
|
4
|
1944
|
Commissioned
|
|
|
D
|
15
|
4
|
1944
|
Command
|
CDR Horace “Iron
Mike” Myers assumes command
|
|
E
|
|
6
|
1944
|
Shakedown Training
|
San Diego, Ca
|
|
F
|
16
|
7
|
1944
|
Screened a convoy
to Pearl Harbor
|
Seattle, WA
|
|
G
|
29
|
7
|
1944
|
Arrived
|
Pearl Harbor
|
|
H
|
8
|
8
|
1944
|
Joined Task Force
(TF) 94 (or 92) per Hurst
|
Adak, Alaska -
Trenton (C-11), Concord (C-10), Richmond (CL-9), and destroyers of
Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 57
|
|
I
|
14
|
8
|
1944
|
Battle Mission
(Weather Turnback)
|
Kuril Islands -
Harass Japanese outposts in the Kuril Islands
|
|
J
|
21
|
8
|
1944
|
TF94 renamed TF92
|
Adak, Alaska
|
|
K
|
26
|
8
|
1944
|
Battle Mission
(Weather Turnback)
|
Kuril Islands -
Harass Japanese outposts in the Kuril Islands
|
|
L
|
28
|
8
|
1944
|
Laid up
|
Attu is the
westernmost and largest island in the Near Islands group of the Aleutian
Islands of Alaska,
|
|
M
|
21
|
11
|
1944
|
Pounded Japanese
installations
|
Matsuwa is an
island in the central Kuril Islands - damaging the airfields and ot her
installations heavily
|
|
N
|
25
|
11
|
1944
|
Returned to Attu
|
Attu/Adak
|
|
O
|
1
|
12
|
1944
|
Routed to Dutch
harbor w/DesDiv 113
|
Dutch Harbor
|
|
P
|
|
12
|
1944
|
Change of Command
|
CDR George Paul Unmacht assumes
command from CDR Horace “Iron Mike” Myers
|
|
Q
|
13
|
12
|
1944
|
Enroute to Japan's
Kuril defenses
|
Enroute Kuril
|
|
R
|
3
|
1
|
1945
|
Swept Kuril
defenses
|
Kuril Islands
|
|
S
|
5
|
1
|
1945
|
Bombarded
Surabachi Wan area of Paramushiro
|
Kuril Islands -
severely damaging canning installations and airfields
|
|
T
|
13
|
1
|
1945
|
Return
|
Dutch Harbor
|
|
U
|
16
|
1
|
1945
|
Headed south for
operational training
|
To Pearl Harbor
- Stoddard and Rowe (DD-564)
|
|
V
|
22
|
1
|
1945
|
10 Day Rest Period
|
Pearl Harbor
|
|
W
|
7
|
2
|
1945
|
Back to Attu
|
To Attu
|
|
X
|
13
|
2
|
1945
|
Arrived Attu and
joined with group
|
Massacre Bay
(Attu) Gathering for the bombardment of Kuabu Zaki
|
|
Y
|
16
|
2
|
1945
|
Heading for Action
|
To Kuril Islands
|
|
Z
|
18
|
2
|
1945
|
Bombarded the
island until midnight
|
Paramushiro
|
|
AA
|
20
|
2
|
1945
|
Back at Attu
|
Attu
|
|
AB
|
23
|
2
|
1945
|
Shifted to Adak
for supplies and repairs
|
Adak, Alaska
|
|
AC
|
8
|
3
|
1945
|
Returned to Attu
|
Attu
|
|
AD
|
15
|
3
|
1945
|
hit Matsuwa
|
Matsuwa
|
|
AE
|
1
|
4
|
1945
|
Begin task force
exercises
|
Near Adak
|
|
AF
|
17
|
4
|
1945
|
End task force
exercises
|
Attu
|
|
AG
|
18
|
4
|
1945
|
Departed Aleutians
chain - Heading to Pearl
|
To Pearl Harbor -
DesDiv 13
|
|
AH
|
24
|
4
|
1945
|
Arrived in Pearl
Harbor
|
Pearl Harbor
|
|
AI
|
25
|
4
|
1945
|
recreation in the islands and….
|
Hawaii Area -
preparation for assignment to Okinawa and the Fast Carrier Task Force
|
|
AJ
|
10
|
5
|
1945
|
conducted
operational training
|
Hawaii Area
|
|
AK
|
11
|
5
|
1945
|
sailed from Pearl
Harbor
|
To Ulithi - in the
screen of Ticonderoga (CV 14), bound for Ulithi
|
|
AL
|
17
|
5
|
1945
|
Screening for
Ticonderoga
|
Maloelap Atoll area Ticonderoga's air
group got in a little live ammunition practice on 17 May, when they struck
the Japanese forces isolated on Taroa and the other islets of Maloelap Atoll.
|
|
AM
|
22
|
5
|
1945
|
Task group reached
the lagoon at Ulithi
|
Ulithi Atoll (also
know as Urushi, or Mackenzie Island) is a coral atoll in the Federated
States of Micronesia,
in the western Pacific Ocean
|
|
AN
|
29
|
5
|
1945
|
Departed to take
up station off of Okinawa
|
To Okinawa
|
|
AO
|
2
|
6
|
1945
|
Arrived at radar
picket station
|
Off Okinawa
Though the Okinawa campaign was rapidly nearing its conclusion, the
proximity of airfields in Japan and on Formosa allowed enemy air power to
continue to make life unpleasant for the ships around the island. True, the
deluge of kamikazes had abated, but the skies continued to shower
significant numbers of suicide planes.
|
|
AP
|
4
|
6
|
1945
|
Assisted Cargo
Ships
|
Near Japan -
covered the withdrawal of several cargo ships on 4 June during a
typhoon-evasion maneuver and then returned to her station
|
|
AQ
|
7
|
6
|
1945
|
Picket Duty -two
planes attacked
|
Off Okinawa -both
were sent hurtling into the sea before they could reach the ships
|
|
AR
|
16
|
6
|
1945
|
Picket Duty
nearing end
|
Off Okinawa -
During her tour of duty on the picket line, Stoddard claimed two Japanese
planes for herself, two assists, and one probable kill.
|
|
AS
|
17
|
6
|
1945
|
Enroute to
Philippines
|
To San Pedro Bay -
in the screen of Mississippi (BB-41). San Pedro Bay is a bay in the
Philippines, at the northwest end of Leyte Gulf, about 15 km east-west and
20 km north-south. The bay is bounded on the north and east by Samar and on
the east by Leyte Island. It is connected by San Juanico Strait to Carigara
Bay of the Samar Sea. The largest city on the bay is Tacloban City, the
capital of Leyte province.
|
|
AT
|
20
|
6
|
1945
|
Passed through
Surigao Strait into Leyte Gulf
|
San Pedro Bay
|
|
AU
|
21
|
6
|
1945
|
Underwent repairs
and took on provisions
|
San Pedro Bay -
For the remainder of the month
|
|
AV
|
1
|
7
|
1945
|
Screen of TF 38,
the Fast Carrier Task Force
|
to Japanese Home
Islands - For the next 45 days, she guarded the carriers as their planes
made repeated strikes on the Japanese home islands.
|
|
AW
|
6
|
7
|
1945
|
Was credited with
shooting down two Kamikazes
|
Off Okinawa
|
|
AX
|
23
|
7
|
1945
|
Join DesDiv 113 in
bombardment of Chi Chi Jima
|
Bonins
|
|
AY
|
15
|
8
|
1945
|
Cessation of
Hostilities
|
|
|
AZ
|
16
|
8
|
1945
|
With TF 38 to cover
the occupation forces
|
Waters near Japan
|
|
BA
|
17
|
8
|
1945
|
Stoddard in Tokyo
Bay
|
Tokyo Bay
|
|
BB
|
2
|
9
|
1945
|
Surrender
ceremonies
|
Tokyo Bay -
representatives from the Empire of Japan signed Japanese Instrument of
Surrender in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri.
|
|
BC
|
21
|
9
|
1945
|
Cleared Japanese
Waters
|
Enroute to
Eniwetok
|
|
BD
|
7
|
10
|
1945
|
Availability at
Eniwetok
|
Marshall Islands
|
|
BE
|
8
|
10
|
1945
|
Returned for
training exercises until November
|
|
|
BF
|
18
|
11
|
1945
|
Departed Japan for
the United States
|
Enroute to US via
San Diego
|
|
BG
|
22
|
11
|
1945
|
Thanksgiving Day -
Underway from Japan to San Diego
|
|
|
BH
|
18
|
12
|
1945
|
Transited the
Panama Canal
|
Panama Canal
|
|
BI
|
23
|
12
|
1945
|
Arrived
Philadelphia
|
|
|
BJ
|
24
|
12
|
1945
|
Yard Overhaul
|
Philadelphia
|
|
BK
|
18
|
2
|
1946
|
Change of Command
|
CDR Orville
(Ollie) Liebschner assumes command from CDR George Paul Unmacht
|
|
BL
|
|
4
|
1946
|
Ferried personnel
to Charleston, S.C.
|
Charleston, SC
|
|
BM
|
10
|
6
|
1946
|
Change of Command
|
LCDR William James Hurst assumes
command from CDR Orville (Ollie) Liebschner
|
|
BN
|
8
|
7
|
1946
|
Inactivation
overhaul
|
Charleston, SC -
Charleston Group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
|
|
BO
|
9
|
1
|
1947
|
Decommissioned
(Mothballed) (Hurst 7/1/47)
|
Charleston, SC - remained inactive berthed with
Charleston Group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet
|
|
BP
|
|
11
|
1950
|
Reactivated
|
Fitted out of
Charleston SC and Newport RI
|
|
BQ
|
9
|
3
|
1951
|
Re-commissioned
|
|
|
BR
|
9
|
3
|
1951
|
Command
|
CDR Eli Thomas Reich assumes command
|
|
BS
|
|
|
1951
|
Shakedown cruises
|
Newport, RI and
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
|
|
BT
|
|
10
|
1951
|
Overhaul
|
Overhaul and
modernization in Boston
|
|
BU
|
|
1
|
1952
|
Overhaul continued
(Boston)
|
(#3) 5 inch mount,
20 and 40 mm mounts and forward torpedo rack removed |
|
BV
|
|
2
|
1952
|
Overhaul continued
(Boston)
|
01 level amidships
and aft replaced with aluminum structure –removed guns replaced with radar
controlled 3 inch 50’s – Hedge Hogs installed behind (#2) 5 inch mount
|
|
BW
|
|
3
|
1952
|
|
Stoddard returned to home port of
Newport, RI
|
|
BX
|
17
|
4
|
1952
|
Change of Command
|
CDR John Baumeister Jr. assumes
command fromCDR Eli Thomas Reich
|
|
BY
|
26
|
4
|
1952
|
Hobson Accident
|
Stoddard, Braine,
and Mullany were relieved by Rodman and Hobs on plane guarding for the Wasp
Wasp turned into wind and Hobson went straight Hobson was cut in half-175 crew members
perished and Hobson sunk
|
|
BZ
|
|
4
|
1952
|
Six Month MED Cruise
|
Stoddard Cruise to
Mediterranean Sea with Sixth Fleet – Steamed with Carrier USS Coral Sea.
|
|
CA
|
|
9
|
1952
|
Returned from MED Cruise
|
Returned from MED
Cruise
|
|
CB
|
|
4
|
1953
|
Six Month MED Cruise
|
Annual duty with
Task Force-Entered port of Split, Yugoslavia – President Marshall Tito of
Yugoslavia was so impressed with the Stoddard and crew, the crew was
entertained by hosts in the city. |
|
CC
|
|
9
|
1953
|
Returned from MED Cruise
|
Returned from MED
Cruise
|
|
CD
|
|
|
1954
|
Overhaul
|
Overhaul in
Philadelphia
|
|
CE
|
19
|
3
|
1954
|
Change of Command
|
CDR John Blount
Nelson assumes command from CDR John Baumeister Jr. |
|
CF
|
|
12
|
1954
|
Home Port Change
|
Destroyer Squadron 21 transfers its
home port from Newport, RI to San Diego, CA- Stoddard transits Panama Canal
to San Diego
|
|
CG
|
|
1
|
1955
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Stoddard
participated in the evacuation of Chinese Nationalists from the Tachen
Islands
|
|
CH
|
|
9
|
1955
|
Change of Command
|
CDR Jacob Vincent
Heimark assumes command from CDR John Blount Nelson
|
|
CI
|
|
|
1956
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Stoddard steamed
to Pearl Harbor, Okinawa, Kaohsiung, Taiwan- Subic Bay, Hong Kong, Sasebo and Yokosuka-
Cruised to Robert Island (Parcel Islands) which was reported as being
invaded by Chinese but proved not to be true.
|
|
CJ
|
|
1
|
1957
|
Change of Command
|
CDR Claude Lloyd
Reeves assumes command from CDR Jacob Vincent Heimark
|
|
CK
|
|
|
1957
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Stoddard steamed
to Pearl Harbor and Pago Pago Stoddard then crossed the equator for
Australia with stops in Sidney, Perth and Darwin. Stoddard then steamed to Subic Bay
for repairs, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong and Okinawa
then on to sea patrol near Quemoy and Matsu off the coast of China.
Yokosuka, Sasebo, Midway and Pearl Harbor then back to San Diego.
|
|
CL
|
|
|
1958
|
Change of Command
|
CDR Robert T.
Hanley assumes command from CDR Claude Lloyd Reeves
|
|
CM
|
|
|
1958
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Westpac cruise
included a stop in Australia. Stoddard participated in the
evacuation of Quemoy and Matsu off the Chinese coast that were
claimed by Communist China and Nationalist China.
|
|
CN
|
|
|
1959
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Stoddard was part
of task force designed as an Anti-Submarine (ASW) Group. Cruise included
stops in Okinawa, Yokosuka, Subic Bay, Hong Kong and Kaohsiung.
The US had an agreement with Nationalist China to do sea patrol for defense
against invasion from Communist China.
|
|
CO
|
|
|
1960
|
Change of Command
|
CDR James Richard Collier assumes
command from CDR Robert T. Hanley
|
|
CP
|
|
|
1960
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Stoddard left
Pearl Harbor enroute to Westpac and had to stop to rescue several young men
adrift in a small boat. One of the men rescued was the son of
the mayor of Honolulu. Another
event occurred as a freighter loaded with manganese ore was sinking off the
northern tip of Luzon, Philippines.
Their crew was taken aboard and then taken to Manila Bay.
|
|
CQ
|
|
|
1961
|
Overhaul (Long Beach)
|
In shipyard at
Long Beach, CA for overhaul and modifications
|
|
CR
|
|
|
1961
|
Westpac Cruise
|
The Laotian crisis
brought her to Southeast Asia area.
|
|
CS
|
4
|
6
|
1962
|
Change of Command
|
CDR Charles Louis
Wall assumes command from CDR James Richard Collier
|
|
CT
|
|
|
1962
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Stoddard headed
back to Westpac no longer designed as Anti-Submarine (ASW) group.
The situation in Southeast Asia had changed and Vietnam was becoming a hot
spot. Stoddard operated with carrier the
USS Lexington off Vietnam coast to Gulf of Siam.
The purpose was to evacuate US embassy employees and civilians from
Laos. Evacuees were delivered to Manila on board the USS Lexington.
|
|
CU
|
|
|
1962
|
Escort
|
Stoddard escorts a
convoy of Marines from Camp Pendleton to the Panama Canal for the Cuban
Missile Crisis.
|
|
CV
|
|
|
1963
1964
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Performed exercises with Flotilla
Nine on way to West Pac. Made stops in Hawaii, Sasabo,
Kaohsiung before patrolling Straits of Taiwan.
On to Hong Kong and Yokosuka before return to San Diego
|
|
CW
|
18
|
2
|
1964
|
Change of Command
|
CDR Theodore L.
Morgan assumes command from CDR Charles Louis Wall |
|
CX
|
|
6
|
1965
|
Change of Command
|
CDR Charles
Kenneth Presgrove assumes command from CDR Theodore L. Morgan
|
|
CY
|
4
|
6
|
1965
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Stoddard began operating along coast
of Vietnam.
Gunfire support for American and
South Vietnamese troops. Upkeep in Japan on to Hong Kong then
plane guarding for USS Independence.
On to Sasabo then back to San Diego.
|
|
CZ
|
25
|
7
|
1965
|
Press Release
|
Stoddard and USS
Craig joined forces for mass fire mission against Viet cong in I Corp area
of Vietnam.
Area is the CA DE Song River about eight miles from
DaNang Harbor. Stoddard fired
for four nights shooting 281 rounds of 5” shells.
|
|
DA
|
|
10
|
1966
|
Change of Command
|
CDR Robert Carhart
Conolly II assumes command from CDR Charles Kenneth Presgrove
|
|
DB
|
5
|
11
|
1966
1967
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Hawaii, Yokosuka
then Subic Bay.
Gunfire Support off Vietnam.
Plane guard for USS Kitty Hawk
Participated in Operation ”Sea Dragon”
Stoddard sank 26 small craft and dueled with shore
batteries. Plane guard for USS
Hancock. Stops in Sasabo, Yokosuka, midway and pearl Harbor before returning
to San Diego.
|
|
DC
|
17
|
3
|
1967
|
Attempted rescue of downed pilot
|
Stoddard assisted
in rescue of downed pilot near mouth of Song Giap River.
Under intense fire from shore battery Stoddard was hit and sustain damage to
hull above water line on starboard side.
|
|
DD
|
|
5
|
1967
|
Midshipman Cruise
|
During May and June training for
Naval Academy Midshipman
|
|
DE
|
22
|
9
|
1967
|
Overhaul (Long Beach)
|
Stoddard in for
overhaul in Long Beach shipyard
Completed 5
December 1967
|
|
DF
|
10
|
6
|
1968
|
Westpac Cruise
|
Fuel stops at
Midway and Guam.
Arrived in Subic Bay 3 July 1968.
Plane guard for USS America.
Gunfire support in vicinity of Hue, RVN. Stops in Kaosiung, Hong Kong and
Sasabo. Returning to San Diego
7 December 1968
|
|
DG
|
|
10
|
1968
|
Change of Command
|
CDR James Ernest
Lacy assumes command from CDR Robert Carhart Conolly II in Sasabo, Japan
|
|
DH
|
26
|
9
|
1969
|
Decommissioned
|
Placed in Pacific Reserve Fleet –
Mare Island CA.
|
|
DI
|
1
|
6
|
1975
|
Struck from Naval Vessel Register
|
Stoddard was last
Fletcher Class to be struck from Naval Vessel Register
|
|
DJ
|
30
|
6
|
1976
|
Transferred
|
Ex-Stoddard
transferred from Mare Island to Pacific Missile Test Center at Point Mugu,
CA. Modified and used as target ship for Tomahawk Project.
|
|
DK
|
|
11
|
1983
|
Test Ship
|
A block O Phalanx
installed for testing.
|
|
DL
|
|
11
|
1984
|
Test Ship
|
A block baseline O
Phalanx installed and tested before returning to Port Hueneme unscathed in
September 1985.
|
|
DM
|
|
10
|
1985
|
Test Ship
|
A block baseline O
Phalanx installed on fantail and tested for six months returning to Port
Hueneme with barely a scratch.
|
|
DO
|
22
|
7
|
1997
|
Final Fate
|
Ex-Stoddard was
towed by USS Salvor to a position near the island of Kauai, Hawaii.
Seal Team One installed charges which sank her.
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