Allied Warships

USS Bache (DD 470)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 470 
Built byBethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.) 
Ordered1 Jul 1940 
Laid down19 Nov 1941 
Launched7 Jul 1942 
Commissioned14 Nov 1942 
End service1 Mar 1968 
History

Decommissioned 4 February 1946.
Reclassified as DDE-470 on 2 January 1951.
Recommissioned 1 October 1951.
Reverted back to DD-470 on 30 June 1962.
Wrecked on the Island of Rhodes, Greece on 6 February 1968.
Decommissioned 1 March 1968.
Stricken 1 March 1968.

 

Commands listed for USS Bache (DD 470)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. John Newton Opie, 3rd, USN14 Nov 194215 Jan 1943
2Frank Marshall Adamson, USN15 Jan 194314 Feb 1944
3Robert Cameron Morton, USN14 Feb 1944Dec 1944
4Alan Roberts McFarland, USNDec 1944Sep 1945
5Lt.Cdr. William Kenneth Ratliff, USNSep 194510 Dec 1945

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