Allied Warships

USS Bache (DD 470)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 470 
Built byBethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down19 Nov 1941 
Launched7 Jul 1942 
Commissioned14 Nov 1942 
End service1 Mar 1968 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 4 February 1946.
Reclassified as DDE-470 on 2 January 1951.
Recommissioned 1 October 1951.
Reverted back to DD-470 on 30 June 1962.
Wrecked on the Island of Rhodes, Greece on 6 February 1968.
Decommissioned 1 March 1968.
Stricken 1 March 1968.

 

Commands listed for USS Bache (DD 470)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. John Newton Opie, III, USN14 Nov 19421 Jan 1943
2Robert Cameron Morton, USN1 Jan 194315 Jan 1943
3Frank Marshall Adamson, USN15 Jan 1943Jan 1944
4Alan Roberts McFarland, USNJan 1944Aug 1944

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Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers
Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.
Roscoe, Theodore

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