Hailey (DD 556) - Naval Cruise Book

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U.S.S. HAILEY (DD-556) Mediterranean Cruise September 1954 - February 1955

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Editor .... Ens. Russell Photography . . . B. Stern Art J. A. Caparrotta Editorial Board . . D. D. Peterson C. L Derby

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Hailey History During the War of 1812, an American priva- teer, the True Blooded Yankee, boldly sailed into the Irish Channel and inflicted heavy and em- barrassing damage to British shipping. Her skipper, Captain Joshua Hailey, wrote his name in naval history, a name which went to sea again with Destroyer 556. The HAILEY was commis- sioned and the first watch set on 30 September, .1943, her keel having been laid in the Seatle-Ta- coma shipyards in April of the preceding year. Her first job was the molding of inexperienced personnel into the smooth and confident fighting team required by the Pacific Fleet into which she would soon be intergrated. Under the tutelage and leadership of her first skipper, Captain Parke H. Brady, she set to work and upon completion of her shakedown cruise departed for the Pacific theatre in January of 1944. From that time until the Japanese surrender, the story of the HAILEY is the story of the Paci- fic War. She participated in seven major cam- paigns without sustaining damage of any kind. She performed the tasks of shore bombardment, air defense, anti-submarine protection and plane gurrding at Kwajalein, Tarawa, and Eniwetok in the Marshalls and at Guam, Saipan, the Palaus,