Allied Warships

USS Duncan (ii) (DD 874)

Destroyer of the Gearing class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassGearing 
PennantDD 874 
Built byConsolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.) 
Ordered14 Jun 1943 
Laid down22 May 1944 
Launched27 Oct 1944 
Commissioned25 Feb 1945 
End service15 Jan 1971 
History

Decommissioned 15 January 1971.
Stricken 1 September 1973.
Sunk as a target off the coast of California 31 July 1980.

 

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1T/Cdr. Paul Darwin Williams, USN25 Feb 1945Jul 1946

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Whitley, M. J.


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Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.

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