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DE-643 Damon M. Cummings
United States Navy destroyer escort
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| Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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| Buckley - | . . Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco, Cal. | 1944/04/18 | 1944/06/29 | 1969
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| Namesake: LtCdr Damon M. Cummings, *1910/01/30 staff ComSoPac, KIA 41/11/13 onboard San Francisco in x Guadalcanal | |||||
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| Camouflage: 44: Ms 32, 45: Ms 21 | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 44/09/08 | 44/10/15 | escort convoy from San Francisco to Eniwetok, then sail to Tulagi | 66 | ||
| 44/10/15 | 44/11/06 | Solomons | 66 | ||
| 44/11/06 | 44/11/19 | sail to Funafuti | 66 | ||
| 44/11/19 | 45/01/02 | Funafuti - patrol duty | 66 | ||
| 45/01/18 | 45/03/09 | Port Purvis, Tulagi - patrol and escort duty to Solomons | 66 | ||
| 45/03/1 ? | Seeadler Harbor, Manus - sound gear repairs | 66 | |||
| 45/03/19 | 45/03/21 | Leyte | 66 | ||
| 45/03/21 | 45/04 | Iceber | 55.6 | 86 | |
| 45/04 | 45/05/01 | Iceber | Okinawa - patrol duty | 66 | |
| 45/04/12 | Iceber | damage(kami) off Okinawa | |||
| 45/05/01 | 45/09 | convoy duty among Ulithi, Saipan, Leyte and Okinawa | 66 | ||