The USS STEPHEN POTTER (DD 538) earned ten Battle Stars on the Asiatic‑Pacific Area Service Medal for participating in the following Operations:

1 Star - Marshall Islands Operation

• Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls -- 29 January – 8 February, 1944

1 Star - Asiatic-Pacific Raids - - 1944

• Truk attack -- 16-17 February, 1944

1 Star - Hollandia Operation

• Aitape Humboldt Bay – Tanahmerah Bay -- April – 1 June, 1944

1 Star – Antisubmarine assessment

• 29 April, 1944

1 Star – Marianas Operation

• Capture and Occupation of Saipan -- 11 June – August 10, 1944

• Third Bonins raid -- 3-4 July, 1944

• Capture and occupation of Guam -- 12 July – 15 August, 1944

• Palau, Yap, Ulithi Raid -- 15-17 July, 1944

1 Star – Western Caroline Islands Operation

• Assaults on the Philippine Islands -- 9-24 September, 1944

1 Star - Leyte Operation

• THIRD Fleet supporting operations Okinawa attack -- 10 October 1944

• Northern Luzon and Formosa attacks -- 11-14 October, 1944

• Luzon attacks -- 15, 17-19 October, 1944; 5-6, 13-14 November 1944; 14-16 December 1944

• Visayas attacks -- 20-21 October 1944; 11 November 1944

1 Star - Luzon Operation -- THIRD Fleet supporting operations

• Formosa attacks -- 3-4, 9, 15, 21 January 1945

• Luzon attacks -- 6-7 January 1945

• China Coast attacks -- 12, 16 January 1945

• Nansei Shoto attack -- 11 January 1945

1 Star - Iwo Jima Operation

• Assault and occupation of Iwo Jima -- 15 February - 1 March 1945

• FIFTH Fleet raids against Honshu and the Nansei Shoto -- 15-16 February 1945

1 Star - Okinawa Gunto Operation

• FIFTH and THIRD Fleet raids in support of Okinawa Gunto Operation -- 17 March - 11 June 1945