Allied Warships

USS Mayo (DD 422)

Destroyer of the Benson / Gleaves class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Benson / Gleaves
Pennant	DD 422
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	16 May 1938
Launched	26 Mar 1940
Commissioned	18 Sep 1940
End service	18 Mar 1946
History	Decommissioned 18 March 1946. Stricken 1 December 1971. Sold 8 May 1972 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Mayo (DD 422)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Campbell Dallas Emory, USN	18 Sep 1940	14 Sep 1941
2	Lt.Cdr. Irving Terrill Duke, USN	14 Sep 1941	6 Sep 1942 (1)
3	Lt.Cdr. Frederic Shrom Habecker, USN	6 Sep 1942	23 Nov 1944 (1)
4	T/Cdr. Albert David Kaplan, USN	23 Nov 1944	26 Feb 1945 (1)
5	Lt.Cdr. Wayne Herkness, 2nd, USN	26 Feb 1945	7 Dec 1945 (1)
6	Arthur Boyden Glidden, USNR	7 Dec 1945	31 Dec 1945 (1)
7	Lt.Cdr. Wayne Herkness, 2nd, USN	31 Dec 1945	18 Mar 1946 (1)

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Notable events involving Mayo include:

4 Mar 1942
HMS H 43 (Lt. R.B. Lakin, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with USS Mayo (Lt.Cdr. I.T. Duke, USN) and USS Simpson (Lt.Cdr. E.J. Burke, USN). (2)

25 Mar 1942
USS Mayo picks up 4 survivors from the Dutch tanker Ocana that was torpedoed and sunk south-east of Nova Scotia, Canada in position 42°36'N, 64°30'W by German U-boat U-552.

14 Apr 1942
HrMs O 10 (Lt. J.H. Geijs, RNN) participated in A/S exercises off Lough Foyle together with USS Mayo (Lt.Cdr. I.T. Duke, USN), HNoMS Rose, HMS Venomous (Cdr. H.W. Falcon-Steward, RN), HMS Burwell (Lt.Cdr. S.R.J. Woods, RNR), HNoMS Acanthus, USS Simpson (Lt.Cdr. E.J. Burke, USN), HNoMS Potentilla and HNoMS Eglantine. (3)

11 Jul 1942
USS Livermore and USS Mayo together pick up 32 survivors from the American merchant Santa Rita that was torpedoed and sunk on 9 July 1942 by German U-boat U-172 about 700 nautical miles north-east of Puerto Rico in position 26°11'N, 55°40'W.

18 Aug 1942
HMS H 43 (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxburgh, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with aircraft, HMS Monkshood (Lt. G.W. McGuiness, RNR), USS Gleaves, USS Mayo, USS Niblack and USS Benson. (4)

19 Aug 1942
HMS H 43 (Lt. J.C.Y. Roxburgh, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with USS Niblack, USS Benson, USS Gleaves and USS Mayo. (4)

21 Jan 1944
Around 1220/21, the Task Group 82.8, part of 'X-ray Force', made up of the light cruisers USS Brooklyn (Capt. R.W. Cary, Jr., USN), HMS Penelope (Capt. G.D. Belben, DSC, AM, RN) and the destroyers USS Trippe (T/Cdr. R.C. Williams, USN), USS Mayo (T/Cdr. F.S. Habecker, USN), USS Woolsey (T/Cdr. H.R. Wier, USN), USS Ludlow (T/Cdr. L.W. Creighton, USN) and USS Edison (T/Cdr. H.A. Pearce, USN) departed Naples in support of Operation Shingle, the landings at Anzio. En-route to the landing area they escorted a convoy (NAF 1).

They entered the 'fire support area' around 0130/22.