Ships
- USS Stockham (DD-683) Captain from 2 May 1945
Dwight Lyman Moody was born in Whitley, Kentucky, on 9 April 1912. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy with the class of 1935 and was commissioned an ensign on 6 June 1935. He became a lieutenant (junior grade) on 6 June 1938 and a lieutenant on 1 January 1942.
His first wartime command was the light minelayer Montgomery (DM-17), a destroyer converted for mine work. He was her commanding officer from 1 April 1943 to 1 November 1943. On 1 May 1943, during that tour, he was promoted to lieutenant commander. He was advanced to commander on 1 March 1944.
On 2 May 1945 Moody became captain of Stockham (DD-683). The Fletcher-class destroyer had been built at Bethlehem Steel in San Francisco and commissioned on 11 February 1944, with Ephraim Paul Holmes as her first commanding officer. Before Moody came aboard she had screened fast carriers and taken part in the landings at Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, Leyte, Luzon, and Iwo Jima. In May 1945 she was still off Okinawa.
He kept Stockham through the surrender of Japan in August 1945 and through the first postwar year. The destroyer's Pacific service brought her eight battle stars. Moody left the ship on 30 August 1946.
On 8 October 1946 he took command of the destroyer Henley (DD-762) and remained her captain until 2 March 1948. Moody died in McLean, Virginia, on 11 September 1965, at the age of fifty-three.