OUR THANKS TO JOHN L. DALEY-- SKD2C
FOR THIS SERVICE LOG OF
THE USS HENRY A. WILEY DM-29  

5/4/44 Arrived Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, VA for training in destroyer precommissing school.
7/20/44 Left NOB, Norfolk, VA  
7/21/44 Arrived Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY to commission DM-29
8/31/44 Commissioned USS HENRY A WILEY DM-29, Brooklyn Navy Yard.
9/15/44 Left New York Harbor.
9/18/44 Arrived Bermuda on shakedown cruise.
10/10/44 Thirty hour submarine chase.  Score Zero.
10/18/44 Left Bermuda.
10/19/44 Arrived Norfolk. 
10/20/44 Left Norfolk and arrived at Yorktown Mine Depot, VA.  
10/25/44 Left Yorktown, VA. 
10/26/44 Arrived Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY.  
11/8/44 Left NY.  
11/9/44 Arrived Casco Bay, Maine.  
11/10/44 Left Cosco Bay, Maine with Battleship Missouri, Texas, Arkansas and escort carriers, destroyers.  
11/17/44 Arrived Colon, Panama,. Transit Panama Canal at night.  
11/18/44 Arrived Balboa, Panama.  
11/19/44 Left Balboa.  
11/27/44 Arrived San Diego, CA. Leave Battleships that we escorted.  
12/3/44 Left San Diego, CA.  
12/9/44 Arrived Pearl Harbor, Oahu Island, T.H.  

12/10/44 to 1/26/45 

 Combat training off Maui, Oahu, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Hawaii.  
1/27/45 Left Pearl Harbor  
2/5/45 Arrived Eniwetok Island, Marshall Islands.  
2/7/45 Left Eniwetok Is.  
2/11/45 Arrived Saipan, Marianas Islands.  
2/13/45 Left Saipan escorting Battleship New York.  
2/16/45 Arrived Iwo Jima.  Guarded ships clearing minefields off beach
2/19/45 Invasion of Iwo Jima.  
3/9/45 Left Iwo Jima. Island secured.  
3/11/45 Arrived Saipan, Marianas.  
3/12/45 Left Saipan.  
3/13/45 Arrived Ulithi Atoll near Palau Islands for refitting.  Largest number of combat ships ever assemble in one place.  
3/21/45 Left Ulithi Atoll after refit.
3/24/45 Arrived off Okinawa with minesweepers.  
3/24/45 to 3/26/45 Clear channel between Okinawa and Kerama Retto of mines.  
3/26/45 Invasion of Kerama Retto, future supply base for Okinawa.  
3/26/45 Night bombardment Motobu Penlinsula, Okinawa near Ie Shima. Ernie Pyle killed.  
3/28/45 Two Jap planes splashed! First enemy attack on us.  
3/29/45 Three Jap planes splashed!!  All Kamikazes.  
4/1/45 Invasion of Okinawa.  Spashed one Jap. Easter Sunday "Love Day"  
4/2/45 Splashed two Japs.  
4/4/45 to 4/14/45 Escort guard for reserve troop transports 200 miles southeast of Okinawa. 
4/20/45 Radar picket duty northeast of Okinawa.  
4/23/45 Splashed one Jap.  
4/28/45 Splashed one Jap.  
5/4/45 Five Japs splashed!  two Baka Bombs (suicide one man rockets) downed!  Rescued some survivors of DD Luce sunk by Jap planes.  
5/5/45 Attempt to capture Jap pilot in water. He committed suicide.  
5/11/45 Missed by Jap aircraft torpedoes.  
6/3/45 Invasion of Iheya Shima, northwest of Okinawa.  
6/12/45 to 6/24/45 Zebra Sweep!! Cleared mines from field 60  miles southwest of Okinawa and of Sakishima Island. Preparation of possible invasion of China - Formosa.  
6/25/45 to 7/3/45 Refit and reorganize at Kerama Retto for Juneau Sweep.  
7/4/45 to 7/14/45 Juneau Sweep.  Mine field 150 X 50 miles northwest of Okinawa.  
7/15/45 Arrived Buchner Bay, Okinawa.  
7/17/45 to 7/21/45 Ride out typhoon at sea off Okinawa with DMS's.
7/21/45 to 8/1/45 Finish Juneau Sweep.
8/15/45 Last Shot fired at enemy. 
9/1/45 Ship one year old.  Travelled 59,800 nautical miles.  Shot down eleven fighter planes, four two-mortored bombers, two Baka Bombs.  Credited with destroying more than nine pill boxes on Iwo Jima.  
8/25/45 to 9/12/45 Refit at Buchner Bay, Okinawa.  
9/13/45 Arrived at Wayayama, Skikoku, Japan.  Ride out typhoon in Harbor.  
9/18/45 Left Wakayama, Japan.  
9/29/45 Arrived Bcukner Bay, Okinawa.  
9/22/45 Search for survivors of typhoon off northern Okinawa10/1/45. 
10/1/45 Left Buckner Bay, Okinawa with suicide ships to test sweep area in Usuki Ko, Japan.  
10/3/45 Arrived Usuki Ko, Shikoku, Japan.  
10/6/45 Arrived Buchner Bay, Okinawa.  
10/7/45 to 10/11/45 Ride out typhoon off Okinawa.  125 ships reported lost or badly damaged. $300,000 000. loss at sea and ashore.  
10/21/45 Left Okinawa.  
10/23/45 Arrived Tadaipo, Korea with Jap survivors of sunken tanker.  
10/23/45 to 10/27/45 Cleared minefield with Jap minesweeper in Tsushima Straits.  
10/27/45 Arrived Sasebo, Japan, third largest naval base in Japan. 
10/28/45 First liberty since Jan.26, '45.  Business and industrial area wiped out.  People docile and curious.  
11/1/45 to 11/11/45 Clear minefield south of Korea, near Quelpart Island (Saishu).  
11/11/45 to 11/18/45 At Sasebo, Japan.  Dysentery epidemic in fleet. No cased on DM-29.  
11/18/45 to 11/25/45 Clear minefield off Uotsuri Shima, near Formosa.  
11/25/45 Entered Kiirun, Formosa , badly smashed harbor and port. 
11/26/45 Left Kiiwun, Formosa with Japanese interpreters.  
11/27/45 Arrived Hoko To, Pescadores Islands between Formosa and China.  First ships to enter harbor,. People wild to see foreigners.  Cleared minefields.  
12/1/45 Left Pescadores Islands.  
12/2/45 Arrived Kiirun, Formosa .  
12/3/45 Liberty in Formosa.  Took train thru mountains to Taihoku, Capital of Formosa.  
12/4/45 Left Kiirun, Formosa with supplies for small sweepers. 
12/5/45 Arrived Hoko To, Pescadores.  Loaded supplies all night.  

12/6/45 to 12/11/45

 Cleared minefield off Pescadores Islands.  

12/12/45 to 12/14/45

 Hoko To while our sweepers finished minesweeping.  
12/15/45 Left Pescadores Islands.  
12/16/45 Too rough to sweep.  Entered Amoy China. Very interesting.  
12/18/45 Left Amoy, China.  
12/19/45 Arrived Kiirun, Formosa. Left Kiirum, Formosa the next morning.  
12/21/45 Arrived Yangtze River, China.  
12/22/45 Arrived Shanghai, China.  Wonderful liberties.  
1/3/46 Left Shanghai, China.  
1/5/46 Arrived Sasebo, Japan.  
1/17/46 Left Sasebo, Japan.  Homeward Bound! 6650 nautical miles to Frisco. 
1/23/46 Arrived Eniwetok, Marshall Islands.  
1/24/46 Left Eniwetok after fueling.  
1/26/46 Saturday.  
1/26/46 Another day, still Sat.  Crossed International Dateline.  
1/29/46 Arrived Pearl Harbor.  
2/1/46 Left Pearl Harbor.
2/7/46 Arrived Frisco !