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DD-480 Halford
United States Navy destroyer
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Fletcher | 1941/06/03 Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton | 1942/10/29 | 1943/04/10 | 1970
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| Namesake: Lt William Halford, onl survivor of a group of men who made a trip of over 1,500 miles in a small boat to bring help to the officers and men of the USS SAGINAW which was wrecked on a reef at Ocean Island in 1871 | |||||
| TTD differences from class:43: jen 4x127, 5x533, 1 let OS2U | |||||
| Camouflage: 42-44: 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 | conver - added catapult for OS2U | ||||
| 43/07/05 | 43/07/10 | sail from San Diego to P.H. | 66 | ||
| 43/07/10 | 43/10 | P.H. - testing destroyer floatplane operations | 66 | ||
| 43/08/01 | 43/08/08 | escort (with Converse, Boyd) Indiana and Victorious from Noumea to P.H. | 81 | ||
| 43/08/22 | 43/09/09 | 15 | raid Marcus Is. | 127 | |
| 43/09/29 | 43/10/11 | 14 | raid Wake Is. | 127 | |
| 43/10/27 | 43/12/06 | MINY - reconversion | 66 | ||
| 43/12/06 | |||||
| 43/12/06 | 43/12/2? | sail from Mare Island > P.H. > Funafuti > Esp. Santo > Samoa | 66 | ||
| 43/12/06 | 43/12/2? | sail Mare Island > P.H. > Funafuti > Esp. Santo > Samoa | 66 | ||
| 43/12/2? | escort troopship Lurline to Guadalcanal | 66 | |||
| 44/01 | various duty in Solomons | 66 | |||
| 44/01 | maintenance at Efate (AD Medusa, AD Dixie) | 81 | |||
| 44/02/01 | shell Buka, Choiseul (+ Wadsworth, Waller) | 66 | |||
| 44/02/14 | 44/02/16? | 31.1.4/DesRon45/DesDiv89FF | land Green Islands | 66 127 | |
| 44/02/23 | 44/03/0? | 31/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | shell Rabaul, Kavieng, antishipping sweep in St. George Channel | 66 127 | |
| 44/02/24 | 44/02/25 | 31/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | sinking/share(Bennett) 2 costal ships W of New Ireland | 66 | |
| 44/03 | 44/06 | N Solomons - escort duty | 66 | ||
| 44/03 | 44/05 | N Solomons | 66 | ||
| 44/05/29 | 44/08 | Forage | 52.10/FSU7/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | ||
| 44/06/17 | 44/06/20? | Forage | 58.7/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | xPhilip | 81 |
| 44/06/27 | 44/07/07 | Forage | 52.17.8/DesRon45/DesDiv89 | 127 | |
| 44/08/29 | Port Purvis, Tulagi | 88 | |||
| 44/08/29 | 44/08/30 | 32.12.1/DesDiv89 | support TG 32.2 landing rehearsals on Cape Esperance | 88 | |
| 44/09/04 | 44/09/21 | Stale2 | 32/FSG Angaur | 66 | |
| 44/09/04 | 44/09/21 | Sale2 | 32/FSG Angaur | 66 | |
| 44/10 | 44/11/01 | King2 | 79 | 66 | |
| 44/10/24 | 44/10/25 | King2 | LetfFor/DesRon56/DesDiv112 | xSuriga | 81 |
| 44/11/0? | 44/11/?? | Ulithi | 66 | ||
| 44/11/01 | 44/11/0? | sail from Leyte to Ulithi | 66 | ||
| 44/11/28 | 44/12/01 | 77.1.5/DesDiv112 | sail from Manus to Leyte | 121 | |
| 44/12/02 | 44/12/06 | Leyte | 66 | ||
| 44/12/08 | 44/12/10 | 78.3.8 | land Ormoc Bay | 81 | |
| 44/12/12 | 44/12/19 | 78.3.12 | Ormoc Bay resupply convoy | 81 | |
| 45/01/02 | Mike1 | 79 | 66 | ||
| 45/01/11 | Mike1 | 77.7 | antishipping sweep to San Fernando Harbor | 66 | |
| 45/01/16 | Mike1 | rescued 3 VC-85 crewmen | 121 | ||
| 45/01/17 | Mike1 | transferred VC-85 crewmen to Bush | 121 | ||
| 45/02/14 | Mike1 | 79 | disable(crash with m/s Terry E. Stevenson) in smoke screen | 66 | |
| 45/03/24 | 45/05/27 | MINY - repairs | 66 | ||
| 45/05/27 | 45/06/? | sail from Mare Island to P.H. > Marshalls | 66 | ||
| 45/06 | 45/08 | escort transports from Eniwetok to Ulithi | 66 | ||
| 45/08/1? | 45/09 | 44 | 66 | ||
| 45/08/11 | 45/08/1? | sail from Eniwetok to Adak | 66 | ||