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DE-678 Harmon
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., Shipbuilding Div., Quincy, | 1943/07/25 | 1943/08/31 | 1967/01/30
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| Namesake: Mess Attendant 1/c Leonard Roy Harmon, NC, USN; *1917/01/21, KIA 1942/11/13 onboard San Francisco - the first African-American to have a Navy ship named after him | |||||
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| Camouflage: 45: Ms 22 | |||||
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WW II combat actions:
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| From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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| 43/11/1? | joinPac - Panama Canal | 66 | |||
| 43/12/25 | 44/09/18 | Noumea - local escort duty | 66 | ||
| 44/08/23 | 44/08/29 | Port Purvis, Tulagi | 88 | ||
| 44/11/24 | 45/01/02 | Manus | 66 | ||
| 45/01/02 | 45/01/11 | Mike1 | Luzon Reinforcement Group | reinforce Luzon | 66 |
| 45/01/14 | 45/01/2? | Mike1 | 77.2.2 | 105 | |
| 45/02/04? | escort AGC Blue Ridge from Leyte to Lingayen Gulf | 66 | |||
| 45/03/05 | 45/03/27 | Detach | Iwojima - escort and ASW duty | 66 | |
| 45/04 | 45/08 | 1stFlt | P.H. - training | 66 | |
| 45/08 | 45/??? | MINY - overhaul - 5' guns replaced 3' | 66 | ||