USS Gridley (DD-380) was the name ship of the Gridley class. She was launched at the Fore River yard at Quincy on 1 December 1936 and commissioned on 24 June 1937. She cleared Pearl Harbor on 28 November 1941 in the antisubmarine screen of the carrier Enterprise and was approaching Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December. She entered the harbor next day.
She escorted ships in the Pacific through the first half of 1942, served in the Aleutians as flagship for Commander Frederick Moosbrugger and helped bombard Kiska on 7 August 1942. In the Solomons she guarded the high-speed transports that rescued survivors from the cruiser Helena on 16 July 1943 and destroyed Japanese landing barges in Vella Gulf on 10 August. For the Gilberts she left Pearl Harbor on 10 November 1943 for Makin Island, assisted in the bombardment of the island and screened the carriers.
She sailed with the Hornet task force on 7 June 1944 for the Marianas and was in the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19 and 20 June, where her antiaircraft fire helped protect the carriers. She went to New York for repairs in March 1945 and served in Europe from July 1945 to January 1946.
Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) as reproduced on Wikipedia, NavSource Online (commanding officer list), and Wikimedia Commons (photograph record).