USS Newcomb (DD-586)

Casualty List

Navy US Navy
Type Destroyer
Class Fletcher 
Pennant DD 586 
Built by Boston Navy Yard (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Laid down 19 Mar 1943 
Launched 1 Jul 1943 
Commissioned 10 Nov 1943 
End service 20 Nov 1945 
History  
  Heavily damaged by 5 Japanese kamikaze aircraft on 6 April 1945 off Okinawa, 42 of her crew were lost.
Decommissioned 20 November 1945.
Stricken 28 March 1946.
Scraped in 1947. 
Commanders  
Cdr. Lawrence Blanchard Cook, USN  10 Nov 1943   to  Oct 1944
Cdr. Ira Ellis McMillian,             USN  Apr 1945 to Nov 1945