The third USS Reid, DD 369, was laid down 25 June 1934 by Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J., launched 11 January 1936; sponsored by Mrs. Beatrice Reid Power, and commissioned 2 November 1936, Capt. Robert B. Carney in command.

Samuel Chester Reid, born at Norwich, Connecticut, 24 August 1783, entered the Navy in 1794. He served in Baltimore with Commodore Truxton and in 1803 became master of brig Merchant.    During the War of 1812, Reid commanded privateer General Armstrong and in 1814 at Fayal, Azores, engaged gunboats from British men-of-war en route to Jamaica and New Orleans. Although eventually forced to scuttle and abandon his ship, Reid's action delayed the British squadron and aided General Andrew Jackson's defense of New Orleans.    Reid was appointed master in the Navy in 1844 and died at New York, 28 January 1861.

   From 1937 into 1941, Reid participated in training and fleet maneuvers in the Atlantic and Pacific. During the attack upon Pearl Harbor, Reid fired at the Japanese planes, and her group of destroyers downed one. After the attack Reid patrolled off the Hawaiian Islands, Palmyra Atoll, and Johnston Island, in December. In January 1942, she escorted a convoy to San Francisco. Following patrol off Hawaii, she steamed to Midway Island, and then twice escorted convoys from Pearl Harbor to San Francisco.
   Departing Pearl Harbor 22 May, Reid steamed north to bombard Japanese positions on Kiska Island, Alaska, 7 August. She supported landings at Adak, Alaska, 30 August, and sank by gunfire the Japanese submarine RO-1 on the 31st. After transferring five prisoners to Dutch Harbor, Alaska she patrolled near New Caledonia, Samoa, and the Fiji Islands during October and November.
   Departing Suva Harbor, Fiji Islands on Christmas Day 1942, she escorted Army troops to Guadalcanal, before guarding a convoy to Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. In January 1943, she bombarded several enemy locations on Guadalcanal.
   After patrols in the Solomons, Reid provided radar information and fighter direction for landings at Lae, New Guinea, 4 September. While supporting landings at Finschhafen, New Guinea, on the 22d she downed two enemy planes.
   After patrol and escort duty off New Guinea, she sailed from Buna Roads, New Guinea, to escort troop transports to landings at Arawe, New Britain, 15 December 1943. She protected landings at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, on the 26th, and at Saidor, New Guinea, 2 January 1944. She guarded landings at Los Negros Island, Admiralty Islands, 29 February, and at Hollandia, New Guinea, 22 April. Her guns supported landings at Wakde Island 17 May, at Biak on the 27th, and at Noemfoor Island, New Guinea, 2 July. (continued)