He was killed during the Battle of Midway by machine gun fire from a crippled F4F Wildcat fighter from the USS Yorktown which was making an emergency landing on board the Hornet.

The ship sailed 29 November to join the Pacific Fleet; and, after stops at the Panama Canal and San Diego, arrived at Pearl Harbor 21 December.

Then on 7 March the destroyer sailed for Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, but soon returned to Task Force 58 for carrier strikes against the Palaus and Hollandia.

In the months that followed, the ships hit Pohnpei twice with shore bombardments and screened carrier strikes in the Palaus in connection with the advance of American combined forces.

Ingersoll took part in preinvasion bombardments of Peleliu on 7 September, and early in October joined Task Force 38.

In late October, the Japanese moved in a three-pronged attack to repel the invasion of the Philippines to force a decisive naval battle.

Following battle repairs and crew rotation, Ingersoll got underway for Pearl Harbor 18 April 1945 and after training exercises sailed for Ulithi 2 May.

While off Okinawa on 24 May 1945, the ship engaged a small suicide boat, and next day she shot down two Japanese aircraft during one of many air raids.

She also bombarded the iron works at Kamaishi on 15 July as part of a battleship, cruiser, and destroyer group in one of the first operations against the Japanese home islands by surface ships.

Sailing via the Panama Canal, San Diego, and Pearl Harbor, she arrived Yokosuka, Japan, 14 September to begin operations with Task Force 77 off Korea.

Following repairs and training, the ship got underway again 30 November 1954 for the Pacific, arriving San Diego 15 December and departing 4 January 1955.

She rejoined the 7th Fleet in time to take part in the evacuation of the Tachen Islands, which threatened to bring war between Chinese Nationalists and Communists.

From 27 August to 8 December, Ingersoll underwent a yard period in San Francisco in which a new underwater fire control system was installed.

On this cruise, Ingersoll stopped at Melbourne, Australia, and the Fiji Islands, participating in fleet exercises off Guam and the Philippines.

Ingersoll spent the remainder of 1961 on the West Coast, then sailed 6 January 1962 for duty with the 7th Fleet that included operations with the carrier USS Hancock (CVA-19) off South Vietnam.

She returned to San Diego 18 July 1962 for western seaboard operations until October 1962 when the Cuban Missile Crisis broke.

Ingersoll sailed with an amphibious group to the Canal Zone in case additional troops were needed in the emergency.

When the sea blockade coupled with diplomacy resulted in the removal of the missile threat, she resumed training out of San Diego.

Ingersoll completed a yard overhaul 5 February 1965, conducted readiness operations along the seaboard, then sailed from San Diego 9 June 1965 for the coast of South Vietnam.