Allied Warships

USS Hickox (DD 673)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 673 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered14 Jun 1942 
Laid down12 Mar 1943 
Launched4 Jul 1943 
Commissioned10 Sep 1943 
End service20 Dec 1957 
History

Decommissioned 10 December 1946.,/br> Recommissioned 19 May 1951.
Decommissioned 20 December 1957.
Stricken 2 June 1975.
Transferred to South Korea 15 November 1968 being renamed Pusan.
Pusan was stricken and broken up for scrap in 1989.

 

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1Cdr. Willard Merton Sweetser, USN10 Sep 1943???

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