troops and escorted transports and cargo ships to the beachhead until February, then sailed home for overhaul. Edison returned to the Mediterranean 1 May 1944 for escort and patrol off Italy. On 15 August she was in the thick of the invasion of southern France. Until the end of the year, she continued to pound shore batteries, railroads, and troop concentrations as well as patrol. At New York 17 January 1945, Edison underwent overhaul then escorted a convoy to Le Havre during April and May. Convoys escorted Post-war Edison sailed inter coastal from New York 8 June 1945, and was training at Pearl Harbor when the war ended. She reached Japan in September for the occupation. She left Nagoya on 3 November to be a weather station in the Aleutians. The destroyer returned to San Francisco on 30 December, then continued to the east coast where she was placed out of commission in reserve at Charleston 18 May 1946, later in Philadelphia, where she lay at end of 1962. She was sold on 29 December 1966. Awards American Defense Service Medal with "FLEET" clasp American Campaign Medal with one battle star European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with five battle stars Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal Navy Occupation Medal with "ASIA" clasp References External links hazegray.org: USS Edison World War II destroyers of the United States Ships built in Kearny, New Jersey 1940 ships Gleaves-class destroyers of the United States Navy