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USS Wyman (DE-38)

Flag Hoist / Radio Call Sign:
N - Z - E - G

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row: American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 6 stars - WWII Victory Medal

CLASS: Evarts TYPE: GMT (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, short hull, 3" guns)
Displacement: 1,140 (std), 1,430 tons (full) Dimensions: 289' 5" (oa), 283' 6" (wl) x 35' 0" x 11' 0" (max)
Armament: 3 x 3"/50 Mk22 (1x3), 1 x 1.1"/75 Mk2 quad AA (4x1), 9 x 20mm Mk 4 AA, 1 Hedgehog Projector
Mk10 (144 rounds), 8 Mk6 depth charge projectors, 2 Mk9 depth charge tracks
Machinery: 4 GM Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws
Speed: 19 knots Range: 4,150 nm @ 12 knots Crew:15 / 183

Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Puget Sound NSY on 7 September 1942, Launched 3 June 1943
Commissioned 1 September 1943, Decommissioned 21 December 1945
Stricken 8 January 1946

Fate: Sold for scrapping 16 April 1947 to the National Steel and Metal Company,
of Terminal Island, CA, completed by 14 March 1948.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By And/Or Copyright
10k	Eldon P. Wyman, born in Portland, Ore., on 11 January 1917, attended the University of Oregon from 1936 to 1940 before he enlisted in the Naval Reserve as an apprentice seaman on 22 August 1940 at Portland. After training in USS *Tuscaloosa* (CA-37), he accepted an appointment as midshipman in the Naval Reserve on 17 March 1941. Attending the Naval Reserve Midshipman's School at Northwestern University, Chicago, 111., Wyman was commissioned ensign on 12 June and reported to USS *Oklahoma* (BB-37) on 19 July. That battleship subsequently operated out of Pearl Harbor as a unit of Battleship Division 1 on exercises in the Hawaiian operating area and off the west coast as tensions increased in the Pacific and in the Far East. By early in December 1941, Wyman was serving as junior watch officer of the ship's "F" (fire control) division. Moored outboard of *Maryland* (BB-46) on that "day of infamy," *Oklahoma* took four aerial torpedoes and rolled over at her berth; among those trapped within the doomed ship's hull was Ensign Eldon P. Wyman. (Photo from The Official Web Site of the USS Oklahoma BB-37 thanks to Kevin King)	Bill Gonyo
102k	7 September 1942: USS *Greiner* (DE-37) and USS *Wyman* (DE-38) were laid down the same day during a Labor Day celebration at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. (Source is Seattle NARA, RG-181)	Tracy White
88k	port side, undated	-

View the USS Wyman (DE-38), DANFS history entry
located on the US Naval Historical Center web site.

View a short article on the design and development of the Evarts Class DE submitted by Bob Sables.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

None

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