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US Navy Destroyer Squadrons
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Destroyer Squadron 1
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ComDesRon1:
42/06: Cap Alexander R. Early
43/05/-43/11: Cap Ruthven E. Libby
Cap E.B. McLean
Cap Preston V. Mercer
DD Phelps/SF
DesDiv1: Dewey/DF, Hull, MacDonough, Worden
DesDiv2 (43/07 Cdr George R. Cooper, 43/11 Cdr? I.H. Nunn): Aylwin, Monaghan, Farragut, Dale

43/10 - 43/12 DesDiv2 - Galvanic - Gilbert Islands landing - TF 53

Destroyer Squadron 2
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ComDesRon2:
42/05-42/06: Cap Gilbert C. Hoover
42/10: Cap Arnold E. True
DD Morris/SF
DesDiv3: Sims, Hughes, Anderson/DF, Hammann
DesDiv4: Mustin/DF, Russell, O'Brien, walke

Destroyer Squadron 3
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ComDesRon3: 41/08 - 42/06/09: Cap Thomas Joseph Keliher DesRon3 DesDiv5:
DD Clark/SF
DesDiv5: Reid, Conyngham, Cassin/DF, Downes
DesDiv6 (42/08: Cdr Wyatt Craig): Cummings, Case/DF, Shaw, Tucker

Destroyer Squadron 4
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ComDesRon4: Cap Dessez, Cap Cornelius W. Flynn
41/12
DD Selfridge/SF
DesDiv7 (42/08 Cdr Robert Hall Smith): Bagley, Blue/DF, Helm, Henley
DesDiv8 41/12-42/05: Cdr Samuel B. Brewer, 42/05-VelLav2: Cdr Frank R. Walker:
Mugford/DF, Ralph Talbot, Patterson, Jarvis
King II.
DD Dunlap, Fanning, Case, Cummings, Cassin, Downes

Destroyer Squadron 5
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ComDesRon5: Cap Carter, 42/10: Cap Charles P. Cecil
DD Porter/SF
DesDiv9 (Cdr Laurence A. Abercrombie): Mahan, Drayton/DF, Lamson, Flusser
DesDiv10 (42/10: Cdr Thomas M. Stokes): Cushing/DF (sunk 42/11/13), Preston, Smith, Perkins

42/10/16-26 DesDiv10: x Santa Cruz
42/11/09-13 DesDiv10: x Guadalcanal

Destroyer Squadron 6
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ComDesRon6: 42/06: Cap Edward P. Sauer
King2: Cap V.D. Long
1941/12
DD Balch/SF
DesDiv11 (42/06-43/08: Cdr-Cap Frederick C. Moosbrugger): Gridley, Craven, McCall, Maury
DesDiv12: Dunlap, Fanning, Benham, Ellet
King2: Cap K.F. Poehlman

King II.
(Cap V.D. Long):
DD DesDiv11: Maury/UF, Gridley, McCall, Helm, Craven
DesDiv12 (Cap K.F. Poehlman): Mugford, Ralph Talbot, Patterson, Bagley

Destroyer Squadron 7
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ComDesRon7:
DD Plunkett/SF
DesDiv13: Benson, Mayo, Gleaves, Niblack/DF
DesDiv14: Madison, Lansdale, Hilary P. Jones, Charles F. Hughes

Destroyer Squadron 8
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ComDesRon8:
DD Wainwright/SF
DesDiv15 (43/08: Cdr W.R. Simpson): Lang/DF, Sterett, Stack, Wilson
DesDiv16: Mayrant, Trippe, Rhind, Rowan

Destroyer Squadron 9
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ComDesRon9:
DD Davis/SF
DesDiv17: McDougal/DF, Winslow, Moffett, Sampson
DesDiv18: Somers, Warrington, Davis/DF, Jouett

Destroyer Squadron 10
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ComDesRon10:
1941/12
DD Ellyson/SF
DesDiv19: Hambelton/DF, Rodman, Emmons, Macomb
DesDiv20: Forrest/DF, Fitch, Corry, Hobson
45/08
DD DesDiv19:
DesDiv20: (45/08: Cdr T.C. Atkeson): Benner II

Destroyer Squadron 11
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ComDesRon11:
DD Roe/SF
DesDiv21: Livermore/DF, Eberle, Kearny, Ericsson
DesDiv22: Gwin/DF, Meredith, Grayson, Monssen

Destroyer Squadron 12
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ComDesRon12: King II.: Cap W.P. Buford
41/12
DD Farenholt/DF
DesDiv23: Laffey/DF, Woodworth, Aaron Ward, Buchanan
DesDiv24: Duncan/DF, Lansdowne, Lardner, McCalla

Destroyer Squadron 13
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ComDesRon13:
DD Buck/SF
DesDiv25: Woolsey/DF, Ludlow, Edison, Bristol
DesDiv26: Wilkes/DF, Nicholson, Swanson, Ingraham
44/02
DD DesDiv26 (Cdr Alvord Greenacre): Grayson, Wilkes, Nicholson, Swanson

Destroyer Squadron 14
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ComDesRon14:
43/03: Cap Ralph S. Riggs 43/08: Cap Wyatt Craig
DD DesDiv27: Meade
DesDiv28:

Destroyer Squadron 19
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ComDesRon19:
DD DesDiv37: Thorn
DesDiv38: Welles, Kalk

Destroyer Squadron 21
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ComDesRon21:
Cap Briscoe
Cap McInerney
DD Radford, De Haven, Fletcher, La Valette
DesDiv41: Hopewell, Nicholas, OŽBannon, Taylor
DesDiv42 (Harold O. "Swede" Larson):

Destroyer Squadron 22
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ComDesRon22: Cap Patersen
DD DesDiv43: Philip, Pringle, Renshaw, Saufley, Waller
DesDiv44 (44/02 Cdr James R. Pahl): Sigourney, Conway, Cony, Bennett

Destroyer Sqaudron 23
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ComDesRon23:
43/05/11 - 43/10/21 Martin J. Gilliam
43/10 - 44/04? Cap Arleigh "31 knots" Burke
44/04/08 - 45/07/26 Cap Thomas Dugan
from 45/08/14 Walter Ford
DD Aulick, Braine (44/12/01 joined from DesRon45)
DD DesDiv45 (Cap Arleigh Burke): Charles Ausburne(DF), Dyson, Stanly, Claxton
DesDiv46 (Cdr Bernard Austin): Spence(DF), Thatcher, Converse, Foote

43/06/28 Noumea - Foote joined
43/08/25 DesDiv45 departed Fila Is., New Hebrides
43/08/26 DesDiv46 arrived Tulagi
43/09/14 Port Purvis, Tulagi - Converse joined
43/09/18 Efate - Spence joined
43/09/22 departed Efate for Tulagi
43/09/27 Charles Ausburne sinking 2 barges off Vella Lavella
43/10/01 Spence, Claxton, Dyson, Charles Ausburne attached to TG 39.1
43/10/0? Esp. Santo
43/10/23 Cap Burke broke his pennant at Charles Ausburne
43/10/31 - 43/11/04 TF 39 - see in
43/11/04 arrived Purvis Bay, Tulagi after x Empress Augusta Bay, after refuel sail to Slot to patrol & cover landings
43/11/08 Purvis Bay - storm - Foote + Thatcher detached to US for repairs
43/11/16 Stanly, Converse attacking SS
43/11/22 sail from Purvis Bay to Bougainville - minus Stanly (boiler repairs)
43/11/24 Hathorn Sound - refuel
43/11/25 x Cape St. George - engaged IJN destroyers on troop transport/evacuation run to Buka:
sinking Jugiri, Makinami, Onami > Presidential Unit Citation for this and previous actions (awarded in October '45)
43/12/03 Converse damaged by plane
43/12/14 Converse disjoined for repairs
44/01/30 Port Purvis, Tulagi - Converse rejoined
44/02/04 shell Sarime plantation on Bougainville - Claxton hit by coastal battery (05-49S, 154-39E)
44/02/18 shell Kavieng
44/02/21 sweep N of New Ireland
44/03/26 joined into TF 58

Destroyer Squadron 24
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ComDesRon24: Cap K.M. McManes
45/03: Cap Edward Young
DD Hutchins/SF, Daly, Bache, Killen, Beale, James C. Owens, Ammen, Anthony (from 45/03)
DD DesDiv47:
DesDiv48: Bush
(44/02/14-45/01/31 Cap John B. McLean)
(45/01/31-45/04/06 Cdr James S. Willis)

45/04 Iceberg - Okinawa landing

Destroyer Squadron 25
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ComDesRon25:
43/08-44/08: Cap Edward M. Thompson
44/08-? Cap Henry Crommelin
45/07: Cap J.W. Ludewig
DD DesDiv49 43/08-44/08: Cap Edward M. Thompson: John Rodgers/SF,DF, Harrison, McKee, Murray
DesDiv50 Ringgold/DF, Dashiell, Schroeder, Sigsbee
(43/08-44/08 Cdr Henry Crommelin,
44/08-45/05/01: Cdr Herman O. Parish,
45/05/01-? Cdr Walter C. Winn):

43/08/09 created in P.H.
43/11 - 12 DesDiv50: Galvanic - TF 53
44/03 land Emirau
45/04 Iceberg - Okinawa landing - TG 58.1

Destroyer Squadron 27
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ComDesRon:
1941/12
DD Decatur/SF
DesDiv53: Badger/DF, Babbitt, Leary, Schenck
DesDiv54: Jacob Jones, Roper/DF, Dicekrson, Herbert
1944
DD DesDiv53:
DesDiv54 Cdr Reid P. Fiala:

Destroyer Squadron 29
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ComDesRon29: Cap H.V. Wiley
DD Paul Jones/SF
DesDiv57 (Cdr E.M. Crouch): Alden, Edsall, John D. Edwards, Whipple
DesDiv58: Barker, Bulmer, Parrott, Stewart
DesDiv59 (Cdr Thomas H. Binford, from 42/01/29 LtCdr Edward Nelson "Butch" Parker, Cdr Paul H. Talbot):
John D. Ford, Peary, Pillsbury, Pope
41/12 - 42/03 Asiatic Fleet - Philippines, Netherland East Indies

Destroyer Squadron 30
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ComDesRon30:
DD Dallas/SF
DesDiv60: Dupont, Bernadou, Ellis/DF, Cole
DesDiv61: Lea, Tarbell, Upshur, Greer/DF

Destroyer Squadron 31
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ComDesRon31:
DD MacLeish/SF
DesDiv62: Overton, Sturtevant, Reuben James, Bainbridge
DesDiv63: Broome, Simpson, McCormick/DF, Truxtun

Destroyer Squadron 33
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ComDesRon33:
DD Borie/SF
DesDiv66: Breckenridge, Barney, Blakeley, Biddle
DesDiv67: Tatnall, J. Fred Talbot, Dahlgren, Goff, Barry

Destroyer Squadron 45
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ComDesRon45: 43-44/02? Cap Ralph Earle Jr.
44/05-44/12: Cap Edmund B. "Whitey" Taylor
44/12-45/07: Cap Joe Daniels
DD DesDiv89: Guest, Bennett, Fullam, Hudson, Halford
DesDiv90: 43/09/09-44/05: Cdr Edmund B. Taylor:
44/05/31-06/30: Cdr John F. Walsh (acting)
44/06/30-Detach: Cap Fondeville L. Tedder 		Anthony (45/03 to DesRon24), Wadsworth, Braine (44/12/01 to DesRon23), Terry
43/11 TF 31 - Shoestring 2 - Cape Torokina Landing
44/01 maintenance at Efate (AD Medusa, AD Dixie)
44/02 TF 31 - Land Green Islands
44/06-44/08 TG 52.10 - Saipan landing
44/06/19 TG 58.7 - x Philippine Sea

Destroyer Squadron 46
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ComDesRon46:
Hailstone: Cap Carl F. Espe
DD DesDiv91: Izard/SF, Conner, Bell, Charrette, Burns
DesDiv92: Boyd, Bradford, Brown, Cowell
Reckless: Cdr William M. Sweetser

Destroyer Squadron 47
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ComDesRon47: Cap A.G. Cook
DD DesDiv93: Hoel, Trathen, Heermann, McCord, Hazelwood
DesDiv94 (44/05: Cdr Luther K. Reynolds): Franks, Haggard, Johnston, Hailey

Destroyer Squadron 48
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DD DesDiv95: Erben, Walker, Hale, Stembel, Abbot
DesDiv96: Kidd, Black, Bullard, Chauncey

Destroyer Squadron 49
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ComDesRon49:
Cap H.F. Gearing
44/09-?: Cap E.R. McLean
DD DesDiv97: Picking/SF, Sproston, Wickes, Young, William D. Porter
DesDiv98: Kimberly, Isherwood, Charles J. Badger, Luce


Destroyer Squadron 50
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ComDesRon50: Cap S.R. Clark (Reckle-Halist)
King II: Cap C.R. Todd
DD DesDiv99: Clarence K. Bronson/SF, Healy, Cotten, Dortch, Gatling
DesDiv100: Cogswell/DF, Caperton, Ingersoll, Knapp

Destroyer Squadron 51
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ComDesRon51:
DD Hall, Paul Hamilton, Abbot, Burns, Bell, Twiggs, Halligan

DD DesDiv101:
DesDiv102:

Destroyer Squadron 52
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ComDesRon52:
Hailstone: Cap George R. Cooper
King II: Cap J.P. Womble
DD DesDiv103: Owen, Miller, The Sullivans, Stephen Potter, Tingey
DesDiv104: Hunt, Marshall, Lewis Hancock, Hickox
Cap W.T. Kenny (King II.)

Destroyer Squadron 53
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ComDesRon53: Forager - King II.: Cap Harry B. Jarrett
DD DesDiv105: Cushing II/SF, Uhlmann, Halsey Powell, Colahan, Benham II
DesDiv106: Yarnall, Twining, Stockham, Wedderburn
    Cdr Thomas Burrowes 43/12/30-44/08/08
    Cdr Benjamin F. Tompkins 44/08/08-44/11/13
    Cdr G.K. Carmichael
    Cdr J.H. Hogg 44/11/13-45/03/12

Destroyer Squadron 54
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ComDesRon54: Cap Jesse G. Coward
DD DesDiv107: Remey/SF, McGowan, Melvin, Mertz, Norman Scott
DesDiv108 (44/10: Cdr Richard H. Phillips) : McDermut, McNair, Monssen II, Wadleigh

Destroyer Squadron 55
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ComDesRon55: King II.-Detach: Cap A.E. Jarrell
DD DesDiv109: Porterfield, Callaghan, Cassin Young, Irwin, Preston II
DesDiv110: Laws, Longshaw, Morrison, Pritchett
King II: Cdr M. Van Metre

Destroyer Squadron 56
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ComDesRon56: 44/10: Cap Roland N. Smoot
DD Leutze, Heywood L. Edwards, Bennion, Ross
DD DesDiv111: Albert W. Grant, Newcomb, Richard P. Leary
DesDiv112 (Cap J.H. Conley): Bryant, Halford, Robinson
44/10 King II - Leyte landing and x Leyte

Destroyer Squadron 57
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ComDesRon57:
DD DesDiv113: Rowe, Smalley, Stoddard, Watts, Wren
DesDiv114: John Hood

Destroyer Squadron 60
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ComDesRon60: 44/10 Cap W.L. Freseman
DD DesDiv119: Barton II, Walke II, Laffey II, Lowry, O'Brien II
DesDiv120 (44/12: Cdr John C. Zahm): Allen M. Sumner (44/08-45/01), Cooper, Moale, Ingraham II

44/08/29 DesDiv120 less Cooper joined Pacific Theatre of operations at Panama Canal
44/09-44/10 Leyte landing - TG 38.4
44/12/03 DesDiv120 - x Ormoc Bay
45/01 DesDiv120 - Mike I. - Luzon landing

Destroyer Squadron 61
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ComDesRon61: 45/07 Cap T.H. Hederman
DesDiv121: De Haven II/SF, Mansfield, Lyman K. Swenson, Collett, Maddox II
DesDiv122: Blue II, Brush, Taussig, Samuel N. Moore

Destroyer Squadron 62
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ComDesRon62:
DD DesDiv123: Ault, English, Charles S. Sperry, Waldron, Haynsworth
DesDiv124: Wallace L. Lind, John W. Weeks, Borie, Hank

Destroyer Squadron 63
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ComDesRon63: 45/04: Cap Frederick C. Moosbrugger
DD DesDiv125:
DesDiv126 Cap C. A. Buchanan: Hyman

Destroyer Sqaudron 64
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ComDesRon64: Cap Chester C. Wood
DD DesDiv127: Harry E. Hubbard/SF,DF
DesDiv128:

Destroyer Sqaudron 66
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ComDesRon66: Cap Glenn Roy Hartwig
DD Hugh W. Hadley
DD DesDiv131:
DesDiv132:

Unattached Divisions
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DD DesDiv80: Allen, Schley, Chew, Ward
DesDiv82: Hatfield, Brooks, Gilmer, Fox, Kane, Kent, Dent
DesDiv83: Humphreys, King, Sands, Lawrence/DF, Talbot

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