USS Newcomb (DD-586)
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. |
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Commanders | |
Cdr. Lawrence Blanchard Cook, USN 10 Nov 1943 to Oct 1944 | |
Cdr. Ira Ellis McMillian, USN Apr 1945 to Nov 1945 |