file created: 12/07/02 00:15:26 , last update: 03/19/00
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DD-518 Brownson
United States Navy destroyer
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Fletcher . .
Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Is., N.Y.
1942/09/24 1943/02/03 1943/12/26
sunk
Namesake: RAdm Willard Herbert Brownson *1845/07/08, + 1935/03/16 CinCAF 1906-1907, Chief BuNav
TTD differences from class:
Camouflage: 42: Ms 21 / Ms 22


WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
43/06/18       joinPac  
43/06/18 43/06/28     sail from Panama to California   66 
43/06/28 43/07     California   66 
43/08/10   Cotta 16.17     85 
43/08/2? 43/11/29     Aleutians   66 
43/11/29 43/12/1?     sail from Aleutians to P.H. > Solomons   66 
43/12/20 43/12/20     Esp. Santo   88 
43/12/26   Dexter 76 sunk(bomb) off Cape Gloucester - 108 KIA   66 

Ship status, hull number changes...: sunk 05-20S, 148-25E
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 1 Battle Star
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