Allied Warships

USS Smalley (DD 565)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 565
Built by	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	9 Feb 1943
Launched	27 Oct 1943
Commissioned	31 Mar 1944
End service	30 Sep 1957
History	Decommissioned in January 1947. Recommissioned 3 July 1951. Decommissioned 30 September 1957. Stricken 1 April 1965. Sold 4 January 1966 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Smalley (DD 565)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Peter Harry Horn, USN	31 Mar 1944	6 Mar 1945
2	Herbert Arthur Cassidy, Jr., USN	6 Mar 1945	10 Dec 1945

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Notable events involving Smalley include:

13 Jul 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off five of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Cushing (Lt.Cdr. W.D. Adams, USN), USS Uhlmann (Cdr. S.C. Small, USN), USS Wedderburn (Lt.Cdr. R.W. Clark, USN), USS Mertz (Cdr. W.S. Maddox, USN) and USS Smalley (Lt.Cdr. H.A. Cassidy, Jr., USN), with fuel.