Allied Warships

USS Fletcher (DD 445)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 445
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	1 Jul 1940
Laid down	2 Oct 1941
Launched	3 May 1942
Commissioned	30 Jun 1942
End service	1969
History	Decommissioned 15 January 1947. Reclassified DDE-445 on 26 March 1949. Recommissioned 3 October 1949. Reclassified back to DD-445 on 30 June 1962. Decommissioned in 1969. Stricken 1 August 1969. Sold 22 February 1972 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Fletcher (DD 445)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. William Marchant Cole, USN	30 Jun 1942	11 Dec 1942
2	T/Cdr. Frank Lesher Johnson, USN	11 Dec 1942	11 Apr 1943
3	John Gerard Hughes, USN	11 Apr 1943	19 Apr 1943
4	T/Cdr. Robert Devore McGinnis, USN	19 Apr 1943	10 Feb 1944
5	T/Cdr. John Lee Foster, USN	10 Feb 1944	14 Mar 1945
6	Lt.Cdr. Robert Robinson Green, USN	14 Mar 1945	15 Jun 1946

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Notable events involving Fletcher include:

12 Aug 1942
USS R-12 (Lt. E.E. Shelby, USN) participated in A/S exercises of Guantanamo Bay together with USS Fletcher (Lt.Cdr. W.M. Cole, USN) and with USS O’Bannon (Cdr. E.R. Wilkinson, USN).

4 Sep 1943
USS Cabrilla (Cdr. D.T. Hammond, USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS Fletcher (Lt.Cdr. R.D. McGinnis, USN)

14 Feb 1945
Damaged by Shore batteries, there are 7 killed and 6 wounded amongst the crew.