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'''USS ''Wiley'' (DD-597)''', was a {{sclass|Fletcher|destroyer}} of the [[United States Navy]].
==Namesake== William Wiley was a sailor who served in the [[First Barbary War]]. Besides a few details of his service in the Navy, little is known of the life of William Wiley. He entered the Navy on 2 April 1803 and was assigned to the [[schooner]] {{USS|Enterprise|1799|6}} in the [[Mediterranean Squadron (United States)|Mediterranean Squadron]]. After attaining the rates of [[boatswain]], [[Boatswain's Mate (United States Navy)|boatswain's mate]], and then a reduction to [[quartermaster]], Wiley took part in the daring raid led by Lieutenant [[Stephen Decatur, Jr.]], in the [[ketch]] {{USS|Intrepid|1798|6}} at [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]] harbor on 16 February 1804, destroying the [[frigate]] {{USS|Philadelphia|1799|6}} which had been captured by the Tripolitean pirates. Quartermaster Wiley was transferred to the [[brig]] {{USS|Scourge|1804|6}} soon thereafter, and this is where his documentary trail ends.
==Construction and commissioning== ''Wiley'' (DD-597) was laid down on 10 August 1943 at [[Bremerton, Washington|Bremerton, Wash]]., by the [[Puget Sound Navy Yard]]; [[Ship naming and launching|launched]] on 25 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Herbert V. Wiley, wife of Vice Admiral [[Herbert V. Wiley]], USN (Ret.); and commissioned there on 22 February 1945.
==History== The destroyer conducted shakedown out of [[San Diego]], [[California|Calif]]., through the end of April 1945; underwent post-shakedown availability at Puget Sound; and then sailed for the [[Hawaiian Islands]], departing [[Port Angeles, Washington|Port Angeles]] on 19 May and arriving at [[Pearl Harbor]] on the 26th. She trained in the vicinity of [[Oahu]] for three weeks before getting underway on 13 June to escort the escort carrier {{USS|Cape Gloucester|CVE-109|6}} to the [[Philippines]].
Arriving at [[Leyte (island)|Leyte]] on 13 July and in [[Subic Bay]] on the 15th, ''Wiley'' operated out of the Philippines on training exercises through the first week of August. The ship departed Subic Bay on 9 August and escorted a small group of [[Tanker (ship)|tanker]]s to the [[Ryūkyū Islands|Ryukyu]]s. Within a week, [[Japan]] capitulated, ending the war in the Pacific.
''Wiley'' subsequently joined the North China force in operations off the coast of [[Asia]], while Chinese communist and Nationalist forces fought for supremacy in the strategic northern provinces once occupied by the Japanese. Over the next three months, this peacekeeping duty took the destroyer to [[Dalian]], [[Lüshunkou|Port Arthur]], [[Yantai]], [[Qingdao]], and [[Qinhuangdao]]. The ship destroyed floating Japanese [[Naval mine|mines]] with gunfire and screened the [[cruiser]]s of [[Cruiser Division 6]]. On 8 September, ''Wiley'' covered the landings of a peacekeeping force of American troops at [[Inchon|Jinsen]], [[Korea]].
Detached from this duty with the cruisers, ''Wiley'' joined a fast [[Aircraft carrier|carrier]] [[task force]] on 12 October for operations in the [[Gulf of Bohai]]. During the latter part of October, the destroyer served in the screen for the aircraft carriers {{USS|Antietam|CV-36|6}} and {{USS|Boxer|CV-21|6}} and served as plane guard for the carriers while they conducted routine flight operations over the [[Yellow Sea]]. Detached from this duty on 18 November, ''Wiley'' joined {{USS|San Francisco|CA-38|6}} at anchor off [[Taku Forts|Taku]]. Four days later, ''Wiley'' shifted to Jinsen, took on board passengers and mail, and proceeded to [[Shanghai]], Qingdao, and Taku, disembarking some of her passengers at each port before returning to Jinsen on 30 November.
''Wiley'' remained in the Far East into December and then sailed, via [[Guam]], [[Eniwetok]], and Pearl Harbor, for the United States. After arriving at [[San Francisco]], Calif., on 3 January 1946, ''Wiley'' received her inactivation orders on 11 March and put into San Diego the next day.
==Fate== Decommissioned and placed in reserve on 15 May 1946, ''Wiley'' remained berthed at San Diego until struck from the [[Navy list]] on 1 May 1968. She was sold to the [[National Metal and Steel Corporation]], [[Terminal Island]], [[Los Angeles, California]], on 2 April 1970 and subsequently scrapped.
== References == *{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/wiley.html}}
== External links == *[http://www.navsource.net/archives/05/597.htm NavSource: USS ''Wiley''] *[http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd597txt.htm hazegray.org: USS ''Wiley''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927094602/http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd597txt.htm |date=27 September 2006 }}
{{Fletcher class destroyer}}
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