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DD-473 Bennett
United States Navy destroyer
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Fletcher | . . Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass. | 1942/04/16 | 1943/02/09 | 1959
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| Namesake: WO Floyd Bennett (*1890/10/25, +1928/04/25) served with RAdm Byrd in North Pole expedition | |||||
| TTD differences from class: | |||||
| Camouflage: 42: Ms 21, 43: Ms 22, 44: Ms 21 | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 43/05/1? | joinPac - Panama Canal | 127 | |||
| 43/05/1? | 43/05/31 | escort (with Anthony) Essex from Panama to P.H. | 127 | ||
| 43/05/31 | 43/08 | P.H. - training with carriers | 66 127 | ||
| 43/08 | escort convoy P.H. > Efate | 66 | |||
| 43/08/27 | 43/10/28 | Efate - patrol and plane guard duty | 66 | ||
| 43/08/31 | 43/09/04 | 38/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | tactical exercises with TF 37 and TF 39 out of Esp. Santo | 88 127 | |
| 43/09/11 | 43/09/12 | Esp. Santo | 88 | ||
| 43/10/27 | 43/11/1? | Shoe2 | 31.5/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | land Cape Torokina | 66 127 |
| 43/11/04 | 44/04/05 | Shoe2 | 31.6/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | Solomons - patrol and convoy duty | 66 |
| 43/11/05 | 43/11/06 | Port Purvis, Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 43/11/14 | 43/11/15 | 31.5.1 | assist damaged Denver SE of Treasury Is. | 88 | |
| 43/12/03 | 31 | attacked by planes off Treasury Is. escorting convoy to Bougainville | 81 | ||
| 44/01 | maintenance at Efate (AD Medusa, AD Dixie) | 81 | |||
| 44/02/13 | 44/02/16? | 31.6/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | land Green Islands | 66 | |
| 44/02/18 | shell Kavieng | 66 | |||
| 44/02/23 | 44/03/0? | 31/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | shell Rabaul, Kavieng, antishipping sweep in St. George Channel | 66 127 | |
| 44/02/25 | 44/02/26 | 31/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | sinking/share(Halford) 2 coastal ships W of New Ireland | 66 | |
| 44/05/29 | 44/07/01 | Forage | 52.10/FSU8/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | land Saipan | 66 |
| 44/06/19 | Forage | 58.7/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | xPhilip | 81 127 | |
| 44/06/27 | 44/07/07 | Forage | 52.17.8/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | 127 | |
| 44/08/01 | 44/08/16 | Forage | land Guam | 66 | |
| 44/08/10 | 44/08/13 | Forage | 53.15.10/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | sail from Guam to Eniwetok | 127 |
| 44/08/17 | Eniwetok | 88 | |||
| 44/09/04 | 44/09/06 | Port Purvis, Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 44/09/06 | 44/09/25 | Stale2 | 32.5/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | land Peleliu | 66 |
| 44/09/16 | Stale2 | 32.5/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | off Peleliu: towing damaged Wadleigh | ||
| 44/10/25 | 44/12/1? | San Francisco - overhaul | 66 | ||
| 44/12/24 | 45/01 | P.H. | 66 | ||
| 45/02/1? | 45/03/05 | Detach | |||
| 45/02/28 | Detach | damage(bomb) off Iwojima (24-46N, 141-19E) | 85 | ||
| 45/03/02 | Detach | damaged by bomb or dud torpedo off Iwojima | 85 | ||
| 45/03/2? | 45/04/08 | Iceber | 55.6/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | 66 86 | |
| 45/04/03 | Iceber | 55.6/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | damage(bomb or torpedo) off Okinawa | ||
| 45/04/07 | Iceber | 55.6/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | disable(kami) off Okinawa 15 nm NW of Iheja Shima, Okinawa Gunto (27-16N, 127-48E) - 3 KIA, 18 WIA | 66 85 | |
| 45/04/08 | 45/04/1? | towed (ATF-94 Yuma) from Kerama Retto to Saipan | 66 | ||
| 45/04/1? | 45/05 | Saipan - emergency repairs | 66 | ||
| 45/05 | 45/08 | PSNY - repairs | 66 | ||
| 45/08/28 | 45/09/26 | sail from Adak to Petropavlovsk and back | 66 | ||