The USS WALLER DD 466 earned twelve (12) battle stars
on the Asiatic-Pacific Area Service Ribbon for participating in the following
operations:
One Star/Rennel Island:...........................................................January 29 to 30, 1943.
One Star/Consolidation of Solomon Islands:
Consolidation
of Southern Solomons:....................February 8 to June 20, 1943.
Consolidation of Northern Solomons:...................October 27, 1943 to March 15, 1945.
One Star/New Georgia Group Operation:
New
Georgia-Rendova-Vangunu Occupation:.....June 20 to August 31, 1943.
Vella Lavella Occupation:.........................................August 15 to October 16, 1943.
One Star/Treasury-Bougainville Operation:
Treasury
Island Landing...........................................October 27 to November
6, 1943.
Occupation and Defense of Cape Torokina:......................November 1 to December 15, 1943.
One Star/Bismarck Archipelago Operation:
Green Islands Landing:..............................................February
15 to 19, 1944
Antishipping sweeps
and bombardments of
Rabaul and New Ireland............................................February
24 to March 1, 1944.
One Star/Marianas Operation:
Capture and Occupation
of Saipan:........................June 11 to August 10, 1944.
Capture and Occupation of Guam:.........................July 12 to August 15, 1944.
One Star/Tinian Capture and Occupation:.........................July 24 to August 1, 1944.
One Star/Anti-Submarine Assessment:...............................November 27, 1944
One Star/Luzon Operation:
Lingayen
Gulf Landing...........................................January 4-18, 1945
One Star/Borneo Operations:
Tarakan Island
Operation:.....................................April 27 to May 29, 1945
Balikpapan Operation:............................................June 15 to July 20, 1945
One Star/THIRD Fleet Operations Against Japan:........July 10 to August 15, 1945.
One Star/Minesweeping Operations, Pacific:..................June
23, 1945 to March 2, 1946
***
China Service Medal..........September 5 to December 13, 1945
SUCCESSIVE LIST OF COMMANDING OFFICERS
Lieutenant Commander L. H. Frost, USN. August 1942 to November, 1943
Lieutenant Commander W. T. Dutton, USN. November, 1943 to October, 1944
Commander H. L. Thompson, Jr., USN October, 1944 to decommissioning
