Allied Warships

USS Thatcher (ii) (DD 514)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 514 
Built byBath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down20 Jun 1942 
Launched6 Dec 1942 
Commissioned10 Feb 1943 
End service18 Nov 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Heavily damaged by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft on 19 July 1945 while off Okinawa.
Decommissioned 18 November 1945.
Stricken 5 December 1945.
Sold for scrap on 23 January 1948.

 

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1Lt.Cdr. Leland Ralph Lampman, USN10 Feb 1943> Nov 43

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