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DD-474 Fullam
United States Navy destroyer
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Fletcher . .
Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, Mass.
1942/04/16 1943/03/0 1962/07/07
target
Namesake: Adm Fullam
TTD differences from class:
Camouflage: 42: Ms 21, 43: Ms 32/11d, 44: Ms 22


WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
43/06/20       joinPac - Panama Canal   66 
43/06/28       San Diego   66 
43/07 43/08     P.H. - training   66 
43/08/19 43/09/06     sail from P.H. to Suva, Fiji > Efate   66 
43/08/31 43/09/04   38/DesRon45/DesDiv89 tactical exercises with TF 37 and TF 39 out of Esp. Santo   88  127 
43/09/06 43/10/28?     Efate - escort duty   66 
43/10/07 43/10/10   37/38/39 probably 37 fleet (combined TF 37, TF 38, TF 39) exercises SW of Esp. Santo   88 
43/10/28? 43/11/03 Shoe2 31.5/DesRon45/DesDiv89 land Cape Torokina   66  104  127
43/11/01   Shoe2 31.5/DesRon45/DesDiv89 damaged (grounding) 13 nm SW of Cape Torokina, Bougainville (06-25S, 154-53E)   85 
43/11/03 43/11/0?     Port Purvis, Tulagi   88 
43/11/15 43/11/17     Port Purvis, Tulagi   88 
44/01       maintenance at Efate (AD Medusa, AD Dixie)   81 
44/01/25       shell Empress Augusta Bay   66 
44/01/29       Vella Lavella   66 
44/01/30     31.8/DesRon45/DesDiv89 screen Green Islands reconnaissance   66  127 
44/01/31     31.8/DesRon45/DesDiv89 found I-171 off Green Is  
44/02/13 44/02/16?   31.1.4/DesRon45/DesDiv89 land Green Islands   66  127 
44/02/23 44/03/0?   31/DesRon45/DesDiv89 shell Rabaul, Kavieng, antishipping sweep in St. George Channel   127 
44/03 44/05     Solomons - patrol, escort, screen, FS duty   66 
44/03/15 44/04   39 land Emirau   66 
44/05/29 44/08/10 Forage 52.10/FSU8/DesRon45/DesDiv89     25  127 
44/06/19   Forage 58.7/DesRon45/DesDiv89 xPhilip   81 
44/06/27 44/07/07 Forage 52.17.8/DesRon45/DesDiv89/SF     127 
44/07/21 44/08 Forage 53.5 land Guam   81 
44/08/10 44/08/13 Forage 53.15.10/DesRon45/DesDiv89/UF,SF sail from Guam to Eniwetok   127 
44/08/16       Eniwetok   88 
44/08/29       Port Purvis, Tulagi   88 
44/08/29 44/08/30   32.12.2/DesDiv89 support TG 32.2 landing rehearsals on Cape Esperance   88 
44/09/06 44/09/2? Stale2 32/DesRon45/DesDiv89     66  127 
44/09/12   Stale2 32/DesRon45/DesDiv89 damage(collision with APD Noa) 14 nm E of Peleliu, Palaus (07-01N, 134-30E)   85 
44/09/2? 44/10     Seeadler Harbor, Manus - temporary repairs   66 
44/10 44/12     west coast - repairs, overhaul   66 
44/12/24       P.H.   66 
45/01       Pagan Is. - RP duty   66 
45/02/15 45/02/16     Saipan   66 
45/02/16 45/02/28 Detach   Iwojima - screen and FS duty   66 
45/03/21 45/05/13 Iceber 52.1.3     70  66 
45/05/13 45/07/01 Iceber   Okinawa - Hagushi Beaches - RP, FS duty   66 
45/05/2? 45/06/01 Iceber 31.5 Okinawa/RP5   127 
45/05/20 45/05/2? Iceber   Okinawa/RP7   127 
45/07/01 45/07/2?     escort LCs from Okinawa to Guam, then escort CVE from Guam to Eniwetok   66 
45/08/1? 45/10     Aleutians - escort and patrol duty   66 
45/08/11 45/08/1?     sail from Eniwetok to Adak   66 

Ship status, hull number changes...: 1962/06/01 struck from Navy List
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 7 Battle Stars
Notice: used as target in atmospheric atomic test off Bikini Atoll in 1958, then towed to P.H., sunk as target by missiles and gunfire off Cape Henry, Virginia