After Pearl Harbor the Gwin, Grayson, Meredith, and Monssen were transferred to the Pacific to strengthen our weak Pacific fleet. In early 1942, the Bristol class or "repeat Benson's" came out of the yard and directly into the fight to join their older sisters. Showing great courage, the ships fought well in those dim days of 1942 when the battles at Guadalcanal, Midway, and the Coral Sea were Do or Die. Some would be sunk after bitter battles against the Japanese. Meredith in fact took on over 38 planes from the Japanese carrier Zuikaku before eventually sinking. By 1944 , Nicholson, Swanson, and Wilkes would enter the Pacific and by 1945 most of the Atlantic operating Benson-Livermore class cans joined them after VE day. After a bitter war, our shipmates participated in the Surrender of Japan in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945.

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Doolittle Raid on Tokyo from "Shangri-La"                 

Naval Battles of Guadalcanal

Naval Battles off Okinawa/Kamikaze attacks

Surrender Operations at Tokyo Bay -- Aug-Sept 1945(Under Construction)

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Score board on the Mk37 fire control director on USS Grayson DD435.
Columns left to right:: 7 shore bombardments, 8 Japanese planes shot down, 1 sub 7 ships and a mine.
Grayson earned 13 battle stars and was the only survivor from her original Destroyer Division 22.
(Contributed by Dave Craigmile, ENS USS Grayson DD435.)

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