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After an 18 day voyage, with stops at Midway and Pearl Harbor along the way, the USS Hughes reenters the United States at San Diego Harbor.   A band met the ship on the dock and there were large [...]

The crew of the USS Hughes makes their first trip onto mainland Japan on October 21st, 1945.  They are given four days to explore the town of Ominato, Japan.  The photo above is actually from the [...]

After the surrender, the USS Hughes participated in the initial occupation of Ominato Naval Base and Northern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan while attached to the North Pacific Force.  The days [...]

The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close.

During what would become the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, [...]

After a couple of weeks of training and drilling, the Hughes is again called upon to shell a Japanese base in the Kurile Islands.  This time, they are sent to Matsuwa Island.  Matsuwa Island [...]

Surabachi was a Japanese Naval Base and Airfield located on Paramushir Island in the Kuriles.  Surabachi and the other Japanese airfields on the island had been subject to sporadic air raids from [...]

The end of June was spent running anti-shipping sweeps west of the Kurile Islands using the Aleutian Islands (Attu and Adak) in Alaska as their base of operations.  Notice the snow on the islands [...]

After four months of repairs in San Francisco, the USS Hughes departs and begins three weeks of drills nearby Attu Island in Alaska.