USS Dyson (DD-572) was a of the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Charles W. Dyson (1861–1930). Dyson was launched 15 April 1942 by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Tex., sponsored by Mrs. Charles Dyson, widow of Rear Admiral Dyson; and commissioned 30 December 1942, Commander Roy Alexander Gano in command. Service history United States Navy World War II 1943 After escort and screening duty along the east coast and to the Caribbean, Dyson sailed from New York 14 May 1943 for the Pacific. She joined Task Force 36 (TF 36) at Nouméa, and served from this base and Espiritu Santo in support of the consolidation of the Solomons, patrolling, and escorting convoys. In August she began operating in the Solomons themselves. On the night of 3/4 September in company with she intercepted and sank two barges and damaged another between Choiseul and Kolombangara while patrolling to block Japanese movements by water. Later that month on a similar sweep, she fired on an unidentified ship which burned and disappeared from sight. Returning to Espiritu Santo in October 1943, Dyson with the other ships of famed Destroyer Squadron 23 (DesRon 23) sailed to cover the landings at Cape Torokina, Bougainville, and on 1 November made an attack on airfields in the Buka-Monis area and the Shortland Islands to deny their use by the Japanese to attack the Allied landings. That night in the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, TF 39 intercepted and turned back a Japanese force sailing to attack the transports in the bay. The torpedo attacks and gunfire of Dyson and the other destroyers were a significant factor in sinking a Japanese cruiser and destroyer, and damaging four other enemy ships. Dyson saw action in the bombardment of Buka Airdrome 17 November, and on the night of 24/25 November, took part in the classic destroyer action, the Battle of Cape St. George in which Captain Arleigh Burke's destroyers sank three Japanese destroyers and severely damaged two more which were attempting to evacuate aviation personnel from the doomed Buka area to New Britain. The "Little Beavers" of Destroyer Squadron 23 won this striking victory without a casualty. 1944 Dyson remained in the Solomons until March 1944. She continued to harass the coast of Bougainville and patrol the shipping lanes to Rabaul to prevent Japanese reinforcements from reaching the northern Solomons. In February she joined the support force for