Ships
- USS Samuel S. Miles (DE-183) Captain, 5 November 1945 – 28 March 1946 · Decommissioned her
Edward A. Marelius was a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve. After the fighting in the Pacific had ended, he became captain of the Cannon-class destroyer escort Samuel S. Miles.
Samuel S. Miles had entered service at the New York Navy Yard on 4 November 1943 under George B. Coale. She shook down off Bermuda, sailed from New York late in December, crossed through the Panama Canal, and reached the Marshall Islands in February 1944. From there she screened fleet oilers during fast-carrier strikes on the Carolines and on Hollandia, New Guinea.
Henry G. Brousseau, Jr. relieved Coale in May 1944 and kept the escort on that oiler screen through the Marianas, the Palaus, and the Philippines. On 18 June 1944, off Saipan and Tinian, the ship shot down two aircraft. On 3 October 1944, near the Palau Islands, she sank the Japanese submarine I-177. She later covered the assault on Iwo Jima and screened the ships bombarding Okinawa, bringing down another aircraft there on 27 March 1945. She came home with eight battle stars.
Arthur T. Wendells commanded her from 23 July 1945 until Marelius took Samuel S. Miles on 5 November 1945. On 8 November she entered the St. Johns River and went up to the reserve berths at Green Cove Springs, Florida.
Marelius stayed in command through the winter layoff. On 28 March 1946 he decommissioned Samuel S. Miles into reserve at Green Cove Springs, closing a commission of two years and five months. The escort remained in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until August 1950, when she was transferred to France and renamed Arabe.