Allied Warships

USS Shields (DD 596)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

USS Shields as modified after the war

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 596
Built by	Puget Sound Navy Yard (Bremerton, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	10 Aug 1943
Launched	25 Sep 1944
Commissioned	8 Feb 1945
End service	1 Jul 1972
History	Decommissioned 14 June 1946. Recommissioned 15 July 1950. Decommissioned and stricken 1 July 1972. Transferred to Brazil 1 July 1972 being renamed Maranhao. Maranhao was stricken and scraped in 1990.

Commands listed for USS Shields (DD 596)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. George Bernard Madden, USN	8 Feb 1945	12 Jun 1945
2	George Thornhill McDaniel, Jr., USN	12 Jun 1945	22 Oct 1945
3	Marcy Mathias DuPre, 3rd., USN	22 Oct 1945	14 Jun 1946

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Notable events involving Shields include:

CDR George Bernard Madden Feb 8 1945 - Jun 12 1945 LCDR George Thornhill McDaniel Jr. Jun 12 1945 - Oct 22 1945 LCDR Marcy Mathias DuPre III Oct 22 1945 - Jun 14 1946 (Decommissioned Jun 14 1946 - Jul 15 1950) LCDR Miles Rush Finley Jr. Jul 15 1950 - Apr 2 1952 CDR William Sherman Kirkpatrick Jr. Apr 2 1952 - Mar 20 1954 CDR Leigh Cosart (Early) Winters Mar 20 1954 - Mar 23 1955 CAPT Robert Henderson Holmes Mar 23 1955 - Apr 7 1955 CDR Albert Francis Hollingsworth Apr 7 1955 - Apr 5 1957 CDR Richard Morgan Wright Apr 5 1957 - Mar 8 1958 CDR Samuel Lewis Morton Mar 8 1958 - Apr 4 1960 CDR Arthur LaGrange Battson Jr. Apr 4 1960 - Mar 13 1961 CDR Joseph Lewis Sperandio Mar 13 1961 - May 2 1961 (Acting) CDR Arthur LaGrange Battson Jr. May 2 1961 - Sep 19 1961 CAPT Robert Lee Wessel Sep 19 1961 - Apr 18 1963 CDR Howard Jackson Ursettie Apr 18 1963 - Sep 17 1964 CDR Victor Gordon Warriner Sep 17 1964 - Oct 23 1965 CDR John Francis Tarpey Oct 23 1965 - Apr 8 1967 CAPT Paul Walter Rohrer Apr 8 1967 - Oct 28 1968 (Later RADM) CDR Robert Joseph Forsyth Oct 28 1968 - Jun 17 1970 CDR Billy Banks Traweek Jun 17 1970 - Dec 10 1971 CDR William F. Wolff Dec 10 1971 - Jul 1 1972 (1)

21 Mar 1945
During 21/29 March 1945, USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN), conducted exercises off San Pedro. During the entire period she was escorted by the destroyer USS Shields (Cdr. G.B. Madden, USN).