Smokey Campbell

S/N 393-46-88 Smokey enlisted in Portland, Oregon in the Navy 20 Sep 1940 and trained in San Diego and sailed on the USS Wharton (AP-7) to Pearl Harbor.

He was assigned to the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on 14 Aug 1941 as a Seaman 2nd Class. The West Virginia sank in Pearl Harbor after being torpedoed by Japanese bombers 7 Dec 1941.

Transferred to the New Orleans (CA-32) in Pearl Harbor 9 Dec 1941 as a Fireman 3rd Class. The USS New Orleans suffered no severe damage during the attack and returned to San Fransisco after dropping off troops on Johnson and Palmyra atolls on 13 January 1942. CA-32 returned to service 12 Feb 1942 to Brisbane, Austraillia. From there she in was in an escort to Nouméa and returned to Pearl Harbor to join Task Force 11. CA-32 fought in the battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the Eastern Solomon Islands and returned to Pearl Harbor 21 Sep 1942. November 1942 CA-32 sailed for Fiji then the Solomon Islands where ship was severely damaged in the Battle of Tassafaronga. A Japanese torpedo explosion severed 150 ft of her bow, While on fire, damage control parties managed to repair the ship enough to sail to Tulagi Harbor on 1 Dec 1942. 24 Dec 1942 she made it sailing to Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney, Australia stern first to avoid sinking. A temporary bow was installed. On 7 March 1943, she left Sydney for Puget Sound Navy Yard, sailing backward the entire voyage. 23 July 1943 He was transferred to the Puget Sound Naval Yard in Bremerton, Washington.

20 Oct 1943 transferred to the new destroyer USS Hailey (DD-556). After shakedown out of San Diego, Hailey departed Seattle 13 December 1943 to join the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Promoted to Water Tender 3rd Class on 1 Jan 1944. She sortied from Pearl Harbor 19 January 1944 screening a unit of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner's Southern Attack Force for the assault and occupation of the Marshall Islands. Arriving off the southern tip of Kwajalein Atoll, Hailey joined the Southern Transport Screen and later stood offshore and pounded the enemy with her 5 inch guns. She sailed from Kwajalein 15 February with the Eniwetok Expeditionary Group and arrived off Eniwetok next day to screen the heavy ships; then joined Admiral Jesse Oldendorf's Northern Support Group in battering strong enemy emplacements before retiring to Majuro Atoll screening Manila Hay. After patrolling the Mussau-Emirau area, Hailey spent most of April and May on antisubmarine patrol, intercepting barge traffic and providing daily fire support for Army operations in the New Guinea area.During the first part of June Hailey took up screening and patrol duties east of Saipan in support of the Marianas operations. She sortied from Eniwetok 1 July with Admiral Weyler's Battleship Division 3 for the pre-invasion bombardment and softening up of Guam, then joined Admiral Conolly's Southern Attack Force for the capture of Guam (21 July–10 August 1944) retiring to Eniwetok 9 August. The remainder of August and September Hailey screened a group of escort carriers furnishing air support for the seizure and occupation of Peleliu, Ngesebu, and Anguar Islands in the Palaus. Hailey next sortied from Seeadler Harbor, Manus Island, 12 Oct 1944 with Admiral Felix Stump's "Taffy 2" (Task Unit 77.4.2) the center formation of the three escort carrier groups off the entrance to Leyte Gulf. 25 Oct 1944 her task group stopped the most powerful surface fleet Japan had sent to sea since the Battle of Midway. Sge then joined Task Group 38.4 of the 3 US Fleet off the coast of Formosa. In February 1945 Hailey joined Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Fast Carrier Task Force 58 and until the last of June participated in bombardments and strikes, inflicting much damage to the enemy on Okinawa and the Japanese home islands where "the fleet had come to stay". She returned to the State in July of 1945. Smokey was honorably discharged 15 Aug 1945.