file created: 12/07/02 00:58:47 , last update: 07/16/00
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DD-685 Picking
United States Navy destroyer
Class Laid down, Shipyard LaunchedCommissioned Disabled and Why
Fletcher 1942/11/24
Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Is., N.Y.
1943/06/01 1943/09/21 1997/02/27
target
Namesake: Cap Sherwood Picking, KIA 1941/09/01 in plane crash in Scotland en route London
TTD differences from class:
Camouflage: 42: Ms 21, 43: Ms 32/13d, 44: Ms 22 / Ms 21LE>

WW II combat actions:
From Till Operation Force Action Source
43/12       joinPac - Panama Canal   66 
43/12/28 44/08/09   94/DesRon49/SF Aleutians   66 
44/03/01 44/03/05   94.6/DesRon49 shell Paramushiru   66 
44/03/04     94.6/DesRon49 damaged by heavy weather in Kuriles   85 
44/06/10 44/06/2?   94/DesRon49 shell Matsuwa   66 
44/06/24 44/06/28   94/DesRon49 shell Paramushiru   66 
44/08/09 44/08/31     sail from Adak to San Francisco (upkeep), then to P.H.   66  81 
44/08/31 44/09/15     P.H.   66  81 
44/09/15 44/10/01     escort APA's from P.H. to Manus   66  81 
44/10/11 44/10/25 King2 79     66 
44/10/25   King2 77.4.3 atatched to screen TU   70 
44/10/26 44/11/0?     escort Mount Olympus, AK Aurija to Manus   66 
44/11/20 44/12/27     Leyte - convoy escort duty   66 
44/11/20       Leyte - attacked by planes   81 
44/12/27 45/02 Mike1 77.2/DesRon49     66 
45/01/09 45/01/1? Mike1 77 escort empty transports back to Leyte   81 
45/02/02 45/02/13 Mike1 77?? Subic Bay   81 
45/02/13 45/02/2? Mike1 78.3 land Corregidor and Mariveles Harbor   66 
45/03/19 45/04/01 Iceber 51.1     66 
45/04/01 45/05/28 Iceber 54     66 
45/04/17       helping damaged Longshaw off Okinawa  
45/05/18   Iceber 54 scuttled Longshaw 4 nm WSW of Naha, Okinawa (26-11N, 127-37E)   66  85 
45/05/28 45/06/07 Iceber 34     66 
45/06/07 45/06/23 Iceber   Okinawa - RP duty   66 
45/06/08 45/06/12 Iceber   Okinawa - RP duty SE of Kume Shima   81 
45/06/16 45/06/20 Iceber   Okinawa - RP duty NE of Ie Shima   81 
45/06/23 45/06/25     escort convoy from Okinawa to Saipan   66  81 
45/06/29 45/07/07     sail from Saipan to P.H.   66 
45/07/08 45/07/14     sail from P.H. to Mare Island   66 
45/07?? 45/09??     San Francisco   66 

Ship status, hull number changes...:
Ship score (awards, enemy ships credited...): 5 Battle Stars
Notice: sunk as target off Southern California