Allied Warships

USS Brush (DD 745)

Destroyer of the Allen M. Sumner class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAllen M. Sumner 
PennantDD 745 
Built byBethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down30 Jul 1943 
Launched28 Dec 1943 
Commissioned17 Apr 1944 
End service27 Oct 1969 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned and stricken 27 October 1969.
Transferred to Taiwan 9 December 1969 being renamed Hsiang Yang. Hsiang Yang was stricken in 1984.

 

Commands listed for USS Brush (DD 745)

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CommanderFromTo
1Cdr. John Ellis Edwards, USN17 Apr 19446 May 1945
2John Victor Smith, USN6 May 1945Sep 1946

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Noteable events involving Brush include:


30 Aug 1944
USS Brush arrives at Pearl Harbor.

20 Sep 1944
USS Brush departs Pearl Harbor bound for Eniwetok.

13 Jun 1945
USS Brush arrives at Leyte.

13 Jun 1945
USS Brush departs Leyte to join the fleet again.

14 Sep 1945
USS Brush arrives at Tokyo Bay.

Media links


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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