USS Hyman (DD-732) was named for Lieutenant Commander Willford Milton Hyman, who commanded the destroyer Sims at the Coral Sea and went down with her on 7 May 1942 after directing the abandonment of the ship. The new Hyman was launched by Bath Iron Works on 8 April 1944 and commissioned on 16 June 1944.
She reached Pearl Harbor on 12 October 1944 and sailed for Iwo Jima on 27 January 1945 with the transports of Kelly Turner's force. On 19 February she screened the transports and, as the first wave landed, opened fire with her 5-inch guns. She bombarded Japanese troops and bunkers until 23 February, then returned to gunfire support, fought off an air attack on 24 February, and stayed until 2 March.
She arrived at Okinawa on 1 April 1945 and took station off the transport area. On 6 April, with the other picket and patrol ships west of Ie Shima, she was attacked by kamikazes. She shot down several, but a damaged aircraft crashed near her torpedo tubes and its engine exploded on the main deck. Twelve of her men were killed and more than forty wounded. After emergency repairs at Kerama Retto she steamed on one engine to San Francisco, arriving on 16 May. She was at Pearl Harbor on 15 August and received the surrender of Japanese forces on Kusaie on 8 September and on Ponape on 11 September 1945.
Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) as reproduced on Wikipedia, NavSource Online (commanding officer list), and Wikimedia Commons (photograph record).