Designed in 1939, the Fletcher-class destroyers were named for Rear Adm. Frank Friday Fletcher (1855 – 1928). Fletcher received the Medal of Honor for the 1914 Battle of Veracruz and was in turn the ...
What You Need to Know: The Fletcher-class destroyers were the most numerous and arguably among the most versatile warships of World War II, with 175 commissioned by the U.S. Navy.... What You Need to ...
The damages of World War II were of great interest to archaeologists, and many of them needed a marine investigation. The nearly 348-feet-long (106-meter) Fletcher-class destroyer USS DeHaven ...
Aug. 2—When the keels for the USS Nicholas and USS O'Bannon were first laid down in 1941 as construction on the ships began at Bath Iron Works in Maine, they became sister ships and were some of the ...