Wotje was bombarded, until 5 February, when Remey struck an uncharted reef, she screened the transports and Carrier Division 22 (CarDiv 22) and provided gunfire support for the troops fighting for Kwajalein. On the 6th, she got underway for Majuro, thence proceeded to Pearl Harbor
for repairs.
Mariana Islands
Following repairs, Remey completed an escort run for the
San Francisco and back, then screened Bataan to Majuro. There, from 9 to 29 April 1944, she escorted submarines in and out of the area. Returning to Pearl Harbor on 4 May, she escorted aircraft carriers on exercises in Hawaiian waters and on the 31st got underway for the Mariana Islands. Stopping en route at Kwajalein, she arrived off Saipan on 14 June and with Fire Support Unit I commenced firing on the island. Closing to 4,000 yards (3,700 m), Remey was straddled by shore battery fire, but her return fire destroyed two of the offending batteries. The next morning, while screening Tennessee off Tinian, she destroyed three more guns. In the afternoon, she shelled Saipan and throughout that day and the next continued counterbattery fire. On 17 June, she provided gunfire support for the troops on Saipan, then on 18 June returned to the battleships and remained with them through the aerial attacks of the Battle of the Philippine Sea. On 22 June, she resumed shore bombardment duties and shelled enemy troop concentrations and supply dumps. Through June–July, she remained in the area, continuing her support for operations on Saipan and extending it to ground forces fighting on Tinian
after 24 July.
On 8 August, the destroyer got underway for the
Babelthuap, then on the 16–17 August showered her shells on Angaur. On the 23 August, she sailed south and on the 27 August anchored in Seeadler Harbor to prepare for the invasion of the Philippines
.
Philippines
USS Remey in World War II.
Departing for
toward the southern entrance to Surigao Strait
.
Rear Admiral
battleline. CaptainJesse B. Coward, Commander, DesRon 54, divided his squadron into eastern and western groups to launch torpedo
attacks against the Japanese as they steamed through the Strait toward defeat under the guns of the battleline.
Reports from the
Hibuson Island
, whence the force witnessed the battleline's barrage.
On 10 February 1945, she sortied with Task Group 58.5 (TG 58.5) and, steaming north, screened that group as its planes flew night fighter cover for the task force and conducted night harassment strikes against the enemy in the
Ryūkyū Islands. On 1 April, the group covered the assault on Okinawa's Hagushi beaches, then remained in the area until 11 May as ground forces pushed across Japan's last bastion protecting her home islands. Replenished at Ulithi, the ships, now designated TG 38.4, were back off Okinawa before the end of the month. On 8 June, Remey joined TG 30.4 for the bombardment of Okino Daito
, returned to TG 38.4 the next day, retiring to Leyte on the 11th.
By 1 July, the carriers were again ready to strike at the Japanese home islands. On the 10th sorties were flown against Tokyo and, on the 13th-14th, against northern
Nagoya areas were again the targets. Weather conditions, including a typhoon
, delayed further offensive action until 9 August, when Honshū was again hit.
Detached the following day, Remey, with others of her squadron, proceeded to the
at the end of August, she remained in Japanese waters until 15 September when she got underway for San Francisco.
Arriving on 1 October 1945, she shifted to San Diego in December. In commission, in reserve from January, Remey decommissioned on 10 December 1946 and was berthed at San Diego until ordered activated with the outbreak of hostilities in Korea.
Post-War
Recommissioned on 14 November 1951, Remey departed the west coast on 15 February 1952 and on the 28th reported for duty with the
Mediterranean. Six months after her return to Newport, she sailed for the western Pacific and summer operations with the 7th Fleet. Between June and September, she ranged from Korea and Japan to the Philippines and departed the latter for Suez
24 September, completing her round-the-world cruise on 28 November.
Remey remained in the western Atlantic through 1955 and, in the spring of 1956, as tension in the eastern Mediterranean from
ASW evaluation exercises. In July, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal. By the end of the month, financial retaliations had been imposed by western Europe. Despite various peace plans proposed in August and September, war broke out in late October. To the north, civil unrest continued in Cyprus, flared in Poland, and flamed through Hungary. On 6 November, Remey steamed back to the Mediterranean to assume patrol duties which continued until after Israeli forces withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula
in late January 1957.
Through the spring of 1958, Remey remained on the east coast. During the summer, she conducted exercises in the North Atlantic and the North Sea. Returning in August, she participated in further ASW evaluation tests, then, in October, assumed duties as schoolship for the Destroyer Force's Afloat Engineering School.
Detached at the end of the year, Remey shifted her
Atlantic Reserve Fleet
.
Remey was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 December 1974. She was sold on 10 June 1976 and broken up for scrap.
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