USS Taylor (DD 468)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 468
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered	1 Jul 1940
Laid down	28 Aug 1941
Launched	7 Jun 1942
Commissioned	28 Aug 1942
End service	3 Jun 1969
History	Decommissioned 31 May 1946. Reclassified as DDE-468 on 2 January 1951. Recommissioned 3 December 1951. Reverted back to DD-468 on 30 June 1962. Decommissioned 3 June 1969. Stricken 2 July 1969. Transferred to Italy on 2 July 1969 being renamed Lanciere. Lanciere was stricken by the Italians in 1971 and cannibalized for spare parts.

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Benjamin Katz, USN	28 Aug 1942	16 Jan 1944
2	T/Cdr. Nicholas John Frederick Frank, Jr., USN	16 Jan 1944	6 Feb 1945
3	Henry Howard De Laureal, USN	6 Feb 1945	31 May 1946

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