United States Navy World War II Cogswell arrived at
Pearl Harbor on 9 December 1943 for training, and there joined the screen of mighty carrier
Task Force 58 for the
Marshall Islands operation. At sea on this duty from 16 January to 12 February 1944, when she put into
Majuro,
Cogswell also bombarded
Gugewe Island. She continued her screening as the carriers launched raids on
Truk on 16–17 February and on bases in the
Marianas Islands on 21–22 February, then sailed from Majuro to
Espiritu Santo to screen carriers providing air cover for the
seizure of Emirau Island from 20 to 25 March, and raiding the
Palaus,
Yap, and
Woleai from 30 March to 1 April. The destroyer returned to Majuro on 6 April 1944, and a week later joined the sortie for the
Hollandia landings of 21–24 April, and air raids on Truk,
Satawan, and
Ponape at the close of the month. Replenishment at Majuro from 4 May to 6 June preceded
Cogswells assignment to screen carriers during the landings in the Marianas. On 16 June,
Cogswell was temporarily detached to join in the bombardment of
Guam, rejoining her force to guard it during the momentous air
Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19–20 June. She continued her screening in the raids on Palau, Ulithi, Yap,
Iwo Jima, and
Chichi Jima from 25 July to 5 August, during the last of which she joined in the surface gunfire which sank several ships of a
Japanese convoy earlier badly mauled by carrier aircraft. From 11 to 30 August, she replenished at
Eniwetok. Next at sea from 30 August to 27 September 1944,
Cogswell sailed in the carrier screen as strikes were hurled at targets in the Palaus and
Philippines during the invasion of
Peleliu. On 6 October, she sailed from Ulithi for the air strikes on
Okinawa and
Formosa in preparation for the
Leyte landings. On 9 October she
depth-charged a
submarine that submerged to a depth of as
Cogswell approached and did not respond to
Cogswell's
sonar recognition signals.
Cogswell set her depth charges to explode at and halted her attack after the submarine responded to the recognition signals. The submarine, , suffered no damage nor any casualties.
Cogswell fired protective
antiaircraft cover for her force during the Formosa air battle of 12–14 October. After guarding the retirement toward safety of the
heavy cruiser and
light cruiser , she rejoined her force for air strikes on
Luzon and the
Visayans, and screened them during the
Battle of Surigao Strait, one phase of the decisive
Battle of Leyte Gulf. She returned to Ulithi on 30 October, where future astronaut
Alan Shepard joined the ship as a gunnery officer, but was put to sea 2 days later to return to the Philippines. After the light cruiser was damaged by a submarine's torpedo,
Cogswell guarded her passage to the safety of Ulithi, then returned to screen air strikes on Luzon, the landings on
Mindoro, and the air attacks on Formosa and the
China coast which neutralized Japanese bases in preparation for and during the
Lingayen Gulf invasion.
Cogswell screened the aircraft carrier , hit during an air attack, into Ulithi 24 January 1945, then steamed on to the
United States West Coast for overhaul. After completing overhaul and steaming across the Pacific guarding convoys,
Cogswell arrived off Okinawa on 27 May 1945 for dangerous and demanding duty as radar picket until 26 June. Three days later she rejoined the carrier
Task Force 38 for the final series of raids against the Japanese home islands until the close of the war. Arriving in
Sagami Wan on 27 August,
Cogswell pushed on into
Tokyo Bay on 2 September for the surrender ceremonies. Cogswell was given the honor of being the first USN ship to enter Tokyo Bay before the surrender. She supported the occupation in the Far East through operations in Japanese waters and escort duty to
Korean ports until 5 December, when she sailed from
Yokosuka for
San Diego,
Boston, and
Charleston, South Carolina, where she was decommissioned and placed in reserve 30 April 1946.
Post-World War II Recommissioned on 7 January 1951,
Cogswell served with the
Atlantic Fleet with
Newport, Rhode Island, as her home port. Between 26 August 1952 and February 1953, she cruised to ports of northern Europe while taking part in
NATO operations, sailing on for duty with the
6th Fleet in the
Mediterranean. She again cleared Newport on 10 August 1953, bound for the
Panama Canal and duty off Korea and patrolling in the
Taiwan Straits. Continuing westward, she sailed through the
Suez Canal, and completed her cruise around the world on 10 March 1954. On 15 December 1954,
Cogswell arrived in San Diego to join the
Pacific Fleet. From that time through 1963, she has alternated tours of duty with the
7th Fleet in the Far East with coastwise operations. On her 1955 cruise, she took part in the evacuation of the
Tachen Islands. She returned to the Far East in 1956 and each succeeding year through 1960. In 1957,
Cogswell visited
Australia and the
Fiji Islands, and in 1958, she took part in
nuclear weapons tests at
Johnston Island, and patrolled in the Taiwan Straits when
Chinese Communists resumed shelling of the offshore islands and threatened their assault.
Turkish Navy Cogswell made four deployments to
Southeast Asia during the war in Vietnam. Following her last deployment,
Cogswell was decommissioned on 1 October 1969.
Cogswell then was given to the
Turkish Navy, where she served as TCG
Ismit (D 342) until 1981. She was scrapped after her service in the Turkish Navy. ==Honors and awards==