USS Overton (DD 239)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	DD 239
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	30 Oct 1918
Launched	10 Jul 1920
Commissioned	30 Jul 1920
End service	28 Jul 1945
History	Decommissioned 3 February 1931 in 1932 she was placed in rotating reserve commission, and served in that capacity until again decommissioned, in reserve on 20 November 1937 Recommissioned 26 September 1939 Reclassified as APD-23 on 23 August 1943 Decommissioned 28 July 1945 Stricken 13 August 1945 Sold 30 November 1945 and broken up for scrap.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Bruce Draper Kelley, USN	???	1941
2	Lt.Cdr. Joseph Barnaby Stefanac, USN	1941	May 1942
3	Cdr. Lynne Cline Quiggle, USN	May 1942	Nov 1942

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