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DD-508 Cony
United States Navy destroyer
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Fletcher . .
Bath Iron Works Co., Bath, Maine
1942/08/30 1942/10/30 1969
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Namesake:
TTD differences from class:
Camouflage: 41-42: Ms 21,42: Ms 31/2c, 43: Ms 31/21d, 44: Ms 22
WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
43/01       joinPac  
43/01/27 43/03/06     Noumea - patrol and escort duty   66 
43/02/01 43/02/0?     escort convoy from Noumea to Esp. Santo   66 
43/02/26 43/02/26 Clean 18/DesRon22/DesDiv44 Russel Islands Landing   81 
43/03/04 43/03/09   68/DesRon22/DesDiv44 shell Vila   81 
43/03/05 43/03/06   68/DesRon22/DesDiv44 shell Vila   66 
43/03/06     36.2 sinking Minegumo, Murasame/share  
43/03/10 43/03/15     Efate   88 
43/03/30 43/04/07     Efate   88 
43/04/28       sail to San Francisco for overhaul   66 
43/05 43/07     San Francisco - overhaul   66 
43/08/01 43/08/02     Esp. Santo   88 
43/08/02 43/08/0?     escort transports from Esp. Santo to Guadalcanal   66 
43/08/02 43/08/04   36.3 tactical exercises with TG 36.2 out of Esp. Santo   88 
43/08/05 43/08/06     Esp. Santo   88 
43/08/14 43/09/0?   31 land Vella Lavella   66 
43/09/04 43/09/20     Esp. Santo   66  88 
43/09/20 43/10/27     Solomons - patrol duty   66 
43/09/20 43/09/28   39.1 from Esp. Santo to Tulagi, then 'Slot' patrols and back to Esp. Santo   88 
43/09/30 43/10/06   39.1 sweep Bougainville Strait   88 
43/10/01 43/10/03     sweep against barges evacuating Kolombangara   66 
43/10/02 43/10/04     Port Purvis, Tulagi   88 
43/10/06 43/10/07     Esp. Santo   88 
43/10/12 43/10/12     Esp. Santo   88 
43/10/12 43/10/16     out of Esp. Santo   88 
43/10/16 43/10/24     Esp. Santo   88 
43/10/24 43/10/27     land Treasury Is.  
43/10/27     39 damage(D3A) 15 nm N of Mono Is., Treasury Is - 8 KIA, 10 WIA (07-23S, 155-27E)   66  85 
43/10/28 43/10/31     Port Purvis, Tulagi   88 
43/11/03 43/11/0?     Port Purvis, Tulagi   88 
44/01/05 44/02/25     MINY - repairs   66  88 
44/02/29 44/03/01     MINY   88 
44/03/27 44/05/04     Bougainville - patrol, ASW, FS duty   66 
44/05/04 44/05/15     sail from tulagi to P.H.   66 
44/05/29 44/08 Forage 52.12    
44/07/15 44/07/19 Forage 57.7.4 escort TransDiv30 from Eniwetok to Saipan   125 
44/08/24 44/09/15     Guadalcanal   66 
44/09/15 44/10/05 Stale2 32.7.3 land Palau   70 
44/09/23   Stale2 31.2 land Ulithi   70 
44/10/12 44/10/29 King2 77.2     66 
44/10/25   King2 BattFor/Xray xSuriga   81 
44/11/0 ? 44/11/1?     Manus - replenishment   66 
44/11/16 44/11/2? King2 77.2/DesRon22/DesDiv44     66 
44/11/29 44/11/30 King2 77.2/DesRon22/DesDiv44 sweep Ormoc Bay   66 
44/12/01 44/12/02 King2 77.2/DesRon22/DesDiv44 sweep Ormoc Bay and San Isidro Peninsula area   66  105 
44/12/04 44/12/10     Kossol Roads   66 
44/12/10 44/12/19 Love3 77.12.1/DesRon22/DesDiv44 land Mindoro   70  66 
44/12/23 44/12/31     Seeadler Harbor, Manus   66 
44/12/31 45/01/11 Mike1 77/DesRon22/DesDiv44     66 
45/02/26 45/03/10     Baler Bay and Casiguran Sound, Luzon - reconnaissance, minesweeping   66 
45/03/16 45/03/21 Vict1 74.2.2 land Iloilo, Panay Is.   66 
45/03/27       support (with Cony) landing on Caballo Is. near Corregidor   66  85 
45/04/14 45/04/19 Vict5 74.2 shell Parang   66  81 
45/05/0?       patrol in Davao Gulf   66 
45/06/07 45/06/12 Oboe2 74.2 land Brunei Bay, Borneo   66 
45/06/12 45/07/02 Oboe6 74.2 land Balikpapan   66 
45/07/11 45/07/13     land Saragani Bay, Mindanao   66 
45/08       escort duty - Leyte <> Ulithi   66 

Ship status, hull number changes...:
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 11 Battle Stars
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