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DM-27 Adams
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 - | 1944/03/20 Bath Iron Works Co., Bath, Maine | 1944/07/23 | 1944/10/10 | 1971/12/16
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| Namesake: Lt Samuel Adams *1912/04/10, pil. VB-5 3xNC(last posth), MIA 42/06/04 | |||||
| TTD differences from class: | |||||
| Camouflage: 44: Ms 32/3d, 44-45: Ms 21, 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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| 44/12/20 | 44/12/29 | joinPac - Panama Canal escort (with Shea) Bennington to San Diego | 66 81 | ||
| 44/12/29 | 45/01/01 | San Diego | 66 | ||
| 45/01/01 | 45/01/07 | sail from San Diego to P.H. | 66 | ||
| 45/01/07 | 45/02 | P.H. area - plane guard for Bataan during carrier landing qual. | 66 | ||
| 45/02 | P.H. area - mine training exercises | 66 | |||
| 45/03/02 | 45/03/14 | sail P.H. > Ulithi | 66 | ||
| 45/03/14 | 45/03/19 | Ulithi | 66 | ||
| 45/03/19 | Iceber | 52.3 | 66 | ||
| 45/03/27 | Iceber | 52.3 | damaged by kamikaze (26-17N, 127-40E) | 85 | |
| 45/04/01 | Iceber | 52.3 | disable(kami) SE of Kerama Retto (26-12N, 127-08E) > towed to Kerama Retto | 66 85 | |
| 45/04/01 | 45/04/07 | Kerama Retto - temporary repairs | 66 | ||
| 45/04/07 | 45/05/07 | sail Kerama Retto > Guam > P.H. > Mare Island | 66 | ||
| 45/05/07 | 45/07/05? | MINY - permanent repairs | 66 | ||
| 45/07/06 | off Santa Catalina - exercises | 66 | |||
| 45/07/10 | 45/07/17 | San Diego | 66 | ||
| 45/07/17 | 45/07/23 | sail San Diego > P.H. | 66 | ||
| 45/07/23 | 45/08/04 | P.H. area - gunnery exercises | 66 | ||
| 45/08/04 | 45/08/12 | sail P.H. > Eniwetok | 66 | ||
| 45/08/12 | 45/08/15 | escort APA Sitka from Eniwetok to Guam | 66 | ||
| 45/08/16 | 45/08/18 | sail Guam > Buckner Bay, Okinawa | 66 | ||
| 45/08/18 | 45/08/31 | Buckner Bay, Okinawa | 66 | ||
| 45/09/01 | 45/09/03 | sail Buckner Bay, Okinawa > Kagoshima, Kjushu | 66 | ||