Allied Warships

USS Wilson (DD 408)

Destroyer of the Benham class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassBenham 
PennantDD 408 
Built byPuget Sound Navy Yard (Bremerton, Washington, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down22 Mar 1937 
Launched12 Apr 1939 
Commissioned5 Jul 1939 
End service28 Aug 1946 
Loss position
 
History

Damaged in the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in July 1946.
Decommissioned 28 August 1946.
Scuttled off Kwajalein 8 March 1948.
Stricken 5 April 1948.

 

Commands listed for USS Wilson (DD 408)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. Russell Groesbeck Sturges, USN5 Jul 1939???

2Lt.Cdr. Walter Harold Price, USN??????

3Lt.Cdr. Charles Kenney Duncan, USNNov 1943Feb 1944
4Cdr. Colin Jack MacKenzie, USNFeb 1944Mar 1945

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