USS Collett (DD-730) was launched by Bath Iron Works on 5 March 1944 and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard on 16 May 1944, with Commander James D. Collett, the brother of her namesake, Lieutenant Commander Collett, in command. She reached Pearl Harbor on 16 October and Ulithi on 3 November 1944, and screened the Fast Carrier Task Force for the rest of the war.
On 14 November 1944, acting as a picket for Task Force 38, she was attacked by four Betty bombers, shot down two and avoided two torpedoes. In February 1945 the carriers she screened struck Honshu and covered the Iwo Jima landing, and in March she shelled Okino Daito Shima and screened the strikes on Kyushu and southern Honshu.
From 23 March to 24 April 1945 the force concentrated on Okinawa. On 18 April Collett, with four other destroyers and carrier aircraft, sank the Japanese submarine I-56 at 26 42 N, 130 38 E. After replenishing at Ulithi she rejoined Task Force 58 on 11 May for the last month of strikes supporting Okinawa, and from 10 July to 15 August screened the carriers in the final raids on Japan. She entered Tokyo Bay on 14 September 1945.
Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) as reproduced on Wikipedia, NavSource Online (commanding officer list), and Wikimedia Commons (photograph record).