DM-23 Robert H. Smith
United States Navy destroyer minelayer
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Class | Laid down, Shipyard | Launched | Commissioned | Disabled and Why | |
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Allen M. Sumner - | 1944/01/10 Bath Iron Works Co., Bath, Maine | 1944/05/25 | 1944/08/04 | 1973/12/03
scrap | |
Namesake: Cdr Robert Holmes Smith, CO Henley ?? KIA ?? | |||||
TTD differences from class: | |||||
Camouflage: 44: Ms 32/25d |
WW II combat actions:
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From | Till | Operation | Force | Action | Source |
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44/12/01? |   |   |   | joinPac - Panama Canal |   66  |
44/12/09 |   |   |   | San Pedro, Cal. |   66  |
44/12/21 |   |   |   | P.H. |   66  |
45/01/27 | 45/03/09 | Detach |   | Iwojima - RP duty |   66  |
45/03/09 | 45/03/16 |   |   | escort convoy from Iwojima to Saipan, then sail to Ulithi |   66  |
45/03/19 | 45/04/05 | Iceber | 52.2 |   |   66  |
45/03/25 |   | Iceber | 52.2 | damage(planes) off Iwojima (26-00N, 128-00E) |   85  |
45/04/05 | 45/04/21 |   |   | escort convoy from Okinawa to Guam and back |   66  |
45/04/21 | 45/06/04 | Iceber |   | Okinawa - RP duty |   66  |
45/05/2? | 45/05/27 | Iceber |   | Okinawa/RP16 |   66  |
45/06/04 | 45/06/1? | Iceber |   | Okinawa - screen transport area |   66  |
45/06/13 | 45/06/25 |   |   | minesweeping operations off Mijako Shima |   66  |
45/06/25 | 45/07 | Juneau | 39 | minesweeping operations E of Shanghai |   66  |
45/07 | 45/08 |   |   | minesweeping operations SW of Kjushu |   66  |