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DD-512 Spence
United States Navy destroyer
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Fletcher | 1942/05/18 Bath Iron Works Co., Bath, Maine | 1942/10/27 | 1943/01/08 | 1944/12/18
sunk | |
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| Camouflage: 42: Ms 21, 43: Ms 31/2c / Ms 21 | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 43/07 | joinPac | ||||
| 43/07/25 | 43/08/0? | sail from San Francisco to P.H. | 66 | ||
| 43/08/25 | 43/09/0? | 11 | land Baker Island | 66 | |
| 43/09/13 | 43/09/18 | sail from P.H. to Efate | 66 | ||
| 43/09/18 | 43/09/22 | DesRon23/DesDiv46 | Efate | 66 | |
| 43/09/2? | 43/10/01 | Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 43/09/22 | departed Efate for Tulagi | 66 | |||
| 43/09/28 | sinking craft off Kolombangara | 66 | |||
| 43/10/01 | 43/10/02 | attacking barges off Vella Lavella | 66 | ||
| 43/10/01 | 43/10/02 | 39.1 | sweep Bougainville Strait | 88 | |
| 43/10/02 | 43/10/02 | Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 43/10/06 | 43/10/07 | Esp. Santo | 88 | ||
| 43/10/24 | 43/10/24 | Esp. Santo | 88 | ||
| 43/10/24 | 43/10/27 | 39.3/DesRon23/DesDiv46/DF | land Treasure Is. | 88 | |
| 43/10/27 | 43/10/31 | Port Purvis, Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 43/10/29 | 43/11/03 | 39/DesRon23/DesDiv46/DF | xEmpAug-damage(IJN) | 81 | |
| 43/11/03 | 43/11/09 | Port Purvis, Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 43/11/04 | 43/11/05 | escort Nashville from Tulagi to Kula Gulf | 66 | ||
| 43/11/05 | 43/11/24 | Tulagi - Kula Gulf area - patro and escort duty | 66 | ||
| 43/11/09 | 43/11/14? | 39.1/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | escort TG 31.7 from Tulagi to Empress Augusta Bay and back | 88 | |
| 43/11/15 | 43/11/21 | Port Purvis, Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 43/11/25 | DesRon23/DesDiv46 | xCaStGe - sinking/share Makinami off Cape St.George | |||
| 43/12 | 44/01/2? | operate out from Tulagi | 66 | ||
| 44/02/05 | shell Buka Is. | 66 | |||
| 44/02/06 | sinking barge off Green Islands | 66 | |||
| 44/02/09 | 44/02/10 | shell Tiaraka and Teopasino area, Bougainville Is. | 66 | ||
| 44/02/18 | 39.4/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | shell Kavieng and Cape St. George | 66 | ||
| 44/02/22 | 39.4/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | shell Rabaul - sinking/share (DesDiv45, Conway) AT Nagaura 160 Nm of Kavieng (00-54S, 148-38E) | 66 | ||
| 44/03/01 | 44/03/24 | 39/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | land Emirau | 66 | |
| 44/03/27 | 44/04/06 | Desec1 | 58/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | raid Palaus | 66 |
| 44/04/13 | 44/05/04 | Reckle | 58.3/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | 81 112 | |
| 44/06/06 | 44/08/04 | Forage | 58.4/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | 81 | |
| 44/06/19 | Forage | 58.4/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | xPhilip | 81 | |
| 44/08/04 | 44/08/18 | sail from Eniwetok to San Francisco | 66 | ||
| 44/08/18 | 44/10/05 | San Francisco - overhaul | 66 | ||
| 44/10/05 | 44/10/31 | sail from San Francisco to P.H. > Eniwetok | 66 | ||
| 44/10/31 | 44/11/0? | Eniwetok | 66 | ||
| 44/11/0? | 44/11/0? | sail from Enwetok to Ulithi | 66 | ||
| 44/11/1? | 44/11/24 | King2 | 38.1.3/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | 66 | |
| 44/12/01 | 44/12/18 | Love3 | 38/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | land Mindoro | |
| 44/12/18 | Love3 | 38/DesRon23/DesDiv46 | sunk(typhoon) land Mindoro - only 24 survivors, 317 KIA, MIA | 66 86 | |