Allied Warships

USS Clarence K. Bronson (DD 668)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 668 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down9 Dec 1942 
Launched18 Apr 1943 
Commissioned11 Jun 1943 
End service29 Jun 1960 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 16 July 1946.
Recommissioned 7 June 1951.
Decommissioned 29 June 1960.
Transferred to Turkey 14 January 1967 being renamed Istanbul.
Istanbul was stricken and broken up for scrap in 1987.

 

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1Cdr. William Schuetze Veeder, USN11 Jun 1943???

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