Wileman, DE-22, was an Evarts-class destroyer escort. Mare Island Navy Yard laid her down on 30 April 1942 as BDE-22 for the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease. She was launched on 19 December 1942, Mrs. Fred Yam sponsoring, reallocated to the U.S. Navy as DE-22, and commissioned on 11 June 1943. She was named for Ensign William Wolfe Wileman, a naval aviator of Fighting Squadron 2 in Lexington, who earned the Navy Cross at Coral Sea on 7 May 1942 and died of wounds on 13 September 1942 after his F4F crashed on Henderson Field.
She escorted Wharton to the South Pacific in September 1943, patrolled in the Ellice Islands, and on 24 November 1943 reached Makin in a garrison convoy. Three Japanese bombers attacked the convoy with torpedoes, and the one torpedo dropped passed wide, with no hits. She left Pearl Harbor on 28 January 1944 in the screen of a convoy carrying the 16th Marine Defense Battalion and a construction battalion unit to Kwajalein. She took no part in the assault, which went in three days after she sailed. The atoll had been secured for three days when she reached it on 10 February, and she spent about 18 days on antisubmarine patrol there and at Majuro, leaving on 28 February. Wikipedia's account does not name the garrison group she belonged to.
From 30 March she screened the escort carrier Altamaha and then other carriers in a hunter-killer group east of the Marshalls. On the evening of 15 April a torpedo from an unseen launcher passed ahead of Altamaha, and the group never made contact. She escorted oilers to Eniwetok and Majuro in June 1944, and her later duties were escort and patrol work. She reached San Pedro on 27 September 1945.
She was decommissioned at Terminal Island on 16 November 1945. NavSource and Wikipedia differ slightly, with NavSource dating the decommissioning to 28 November, the day she was struck. She was sold to the Pacific Bridge Company in January 1947 (NavSource gives 8 January) and scrapping was completed on 23 June 1947. She earned four battle stars.