DD-521 Kimberly
United States Navy destroyer
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Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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Fletcher | 1942/07/27 Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Is., N.Y. | 1943/02/04 | 1943/05/22 | 1967
sold | |
Namesake: RAdm Kimberly | |||||
TTD differences from class: | |||||
Camouflage: 42-43: Ms 21, 43: Ms 32/6d, 44: Ms 21 |
WW II combat actions:
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From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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43/09 |   |   |   | joinPac |   |
43/11/23 | 43/12/06 | Galvan | 52.1.3 |   |   66  |
43/12/? | 44/01 |   |   | Mare Island Naval Shipayrd - repairs |   66  |
43/12/06 |   |   |   | off Tarawa - departed to west coast |   66  |
43/12/29 |   |   |   | P.H. |   88  |
44/01/22 |   |   | 94/DesRon49 | Aleutians |   66  |
44/02/01 | 44/02/05 |   | 94.6/DesRon49 | Attu - raid on Kurils |   66  |
44/06/24 | 44/06/28 |   | 94/DesRon49 | shell Paramushiro |   66  |
44/08 |   |   | 94/DesRon49 | Kuriles Harrashment |   66  |
44/09/18 |   |   |   | Aleutians - departed to San Francisco |   66  |
44/10/?? | 44/11/10 |   |   | Seeadler Harbor, Manus |   66  |
44/11/10 |   |   |   | escort convoy Seeadler Harbor > Leyte Gulf |   66  |
44/12/21 |   |   |   | escort -convoy to Mangarin Bay, Mindoro |   66  |
45/01/02 | 45/01/17 | Mike1 | 77.2/DesRon49 | land Luzon |   66  |
45/01/27 | 45/01/29 | Mike1 | 77 | escort Wasatch from Lingayen Gulf to Mindoro |   66  |
45/03/21 | 45/04/01 | Iceber | 51.1 |   |   66  |
45/03/25 |   | Iceber | 51.1 | damage(kami - D3A) off Okinawa (26-02N, 126-54E) |   66  85  |
45/03/27 | 45/04/01 |   |   | Kerama Retto - emergency repairs |   66  |
45/04/01 | 45/04/25 |   |   | Kerama Retto - depart to Mare Island for permanent repairs |   66  |
45/04/25 | 45/07?? |   |   | Mare Island - repairs |   66  |
45/07/19 | 45/08/10 |   |   | P.H. - exercises |   |
45/08/10 | 45/08/17 |   | 12.5.9 | sail from P.H. to Eniwetok |   66  125  |
45/08/21 | 45/08/25 |   | 30.3.9 | sail from Eniwetok to join TF 38 off Japanese coast |   105  |