Destroyer Squadron 25 was formed in the Pacific concurrent with the end of the Solomon Islands campaign. It was composed of nine 2,100-ton Fletcher-class destroyers as follows:

Destroyer Squadron 25 1943 Destroyer Division 49 USS Stevens (DD 479) USS Harrison (DD 573) USS John Rodgers (DD 574), flagship USS McKee (DD 575) USS Murray (D 576) Destroyer Division 50 USS Ringgold (DD 500) USS Schroeder (DD 501) USS Sigsbee (DD 502) USS Dashiell (DD 659)

 • High-bridge Harrison (DD 574), John Rodgers (DD 574), McKee

Destroyer Squadron 25 World War II Operations

(DD 575) and Murray (DD 576) from, Consolidated Shipbuilding, Orange, Texas.
 • High-bridge Ringgold (DD 500), Schroeder (DD 501) and Sigsbee (DD 502) and low-bridge Dashiell (DD 659), four consecutively-built ships from Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey.
 • Stevens (DD 479) from Charleston Navy Yard, originally fitted with a seaplane catapult.
   Less Stevens, DesDiv 49 arrived in the Pacific in time to participate in the Bougainville operation; then was joined by DesDiv 50 for raids and the Gilbert Islands operation, continuing with Fifth Fleet operations across Micronesia leading to the invasion of the Philippines.
   After refit on the West Coast, the squadron returned to the war zone for the Iwo Jima and Okinawa operations and then joined Adm. Halsey’s Third Fleet for the war’s closing air strikes on Japan.