USS Pruitt ( DD - 347 ) USS " Pruitt " ( DD - 347 / DM - 22 / AG – 101 ) was a " Clemson " - class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I . She was named for Corporal John H . Pruitt , USMC , World War I Medal of Honor recipient . " Pruitt " was laid down on 25 June 1919 by Bath Iron Works , Bath , Maine ; launched on 2 August 1920 ; sponsored by Mrs . Belle Pruitt ; and commissioned on 2 September 1920 , Lieutenant M . R . Derx in command . Service history . During the interwar period , " Pruitt " operated in the Western Pacific , protecting American interests in the Far East . She was converted to a light minelayer and accordingly redesignated DM - 22 on 30 June 1937 . LTJG Richard O ' Kane , who would win the Medal of Honor as the most successful U . S . submarine officer of World War II , served aboard " Pruitt " from 1935 through shipyard conversion to a minelayer . A unit of Mine Division 1 , she was undergoing overhaul at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 7 December 1941 , with future Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison on board . At 07 : 53 , Japanese planes flew over the base at low altitude and within minutes some of " Pruitt " s crew had sprinted to other ships and fired their first bullets under war conditions . Others manned fire hoses and helped distribute ammunition during the attack on Pearl Harbor . At the end of January 1942 , " Pruitt " completed overhaul and took up offshore patrol and minelaying duties with the Hawaiian Sea Frontier . Continuing operations there into June , she sailed , on the 19th , for Bremerton , Washington , from where she steamed to the Aleutian Islands for minelaying operations and escort assignments out of Kodiak . Into the fall she continued operations in the Aleutians , interrupted by regular runs back to the Hawaiian Islands , and then took up escort duties along the west coast . With the new year , 1943 , " Pruitt " shifted south and trained with the 4th Marine Raider Battalion off Southern California . Further escort assignments followed and on 24 April she departed San Francisco , California to return to the Aleutians . Sailing with TF 51 , she steamed to Cold Bay , thence to Attu . On 11 May , she arrived off the latter , escorted landing craft into Massacre Bay , and then dispatched the boat waves . After the initial assault she took up anti - submarine and anti - aircraft patrols . Later shifting to Holtz Bay , she continued to perform patrol duties and to escort smaller craft from Amchitka and Adak until the end of the month . On 6 June " Pruitt " returned to San Francisco and coastal escort duties . Through the summer she steamed along the coast from Alaska to Southern California and in September got underway for the Solomon Islands . At the end of October , she arrived at Purvis Bay , Florida Island , whence she steamed to Bougainville . Taking on mines at Acre , New Hebrides , she planted mines along Bougainville ' s southern coast on the 2nd , 8th , and 24 November in support of operations on Cape Torokina , then in December shifted to escort assignments between and among the Solomons , New Hebrides , New Caledonia , and the Societies . " Pruitt " returned to San Francisco on 18 July 1944 , underwent overhaul , and in October sailed back to Pearl Harbor where she began submarine training operations . Detached toward the end of November , she patrolled off Midway from 29 November – 15 January 1945 . On 22 January she resumed operations with the Training Command , Submarine Force and for the remainder of World War II trained submarines southwest of Oahu . Redesignated AG – 101 on 5 June 1945 , she was ordered inactivated three months later , and on 21 September she sailed east , arriving at Philadelphia in October . Fate . Decommissioning on 16 November 1945 , she was struck from the Navy List on 5 December 1945 . She was later scrapped at the Philadelphia Navy Yard . Awards . " Pruitt " earned three battle star s during World War II . Postscript . As of 21 JUNE 2013 , no other ship has been named USS " Pruitt " .