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USS Ward was laid down as a 1,247-long-ton (1,267 t) Wickes-class destroyer ... Ward transported Army personnel during the landings at Ormoc Bay, Leyte.
On 9 September 1940, Aaron Ward was decommissioned at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Transferred to Britain as one of the 50 old destroyers leased to that nation in return for the right to establish American bases on British possessions in the Western Hemisphere by the destroyers-for-bases deal, she was commissioned in the Royal Navy that same day as HMS Castleton.
Early in the morning of December 7, 1941, the Ward, while on patrol near the entrance to Pearl Harbor, was alerted by the cargo ship Antares (AG-10) to the presence of a Japanese midget submarine attempting to infiltrate into the harbor entrance. The Ward opened fire with her number three deck gun, then dropped depth charges, and sank the ...
Ward: DD-139 Undamaged patrolling channel entrance to Pearl Harbor Dewey: DD-349 Undamaged moored berth X-2 with Phelps, MacDonough, Worden, Hull and Dobbin: Farragut: DD-348 Undamaged Moored at Berth X-14 with Aylwin, Farragut, Dale and Monaghan (starboard to port) Hull: DD-350 Very minor damage from a bomb near-miss
The third ship named USS Aaron Ward (DD-773/DM-34) in honor of Rear Admiral Aaron Ward was a Robert H. Smith-class destroyer minelayer in the service of the United States Navy. She was laid down as an Allen M. Sumner -class destroyer ( DD-773 ) on 12 December 1943 at San Pedro , California by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding and launched on 5 May ...
More than 200 American servicemen perished when the USS Edsall was brought down by Japanese forces on March 1, 1942. ... serving as a marker for the 185 US Navy personnel and 31 US Army Air Force ...
USS Ward (DD-139) was an old "4-piper" destroyer commissioned in 1918; the ship used in the movie, USS Finch (DE-328), which portrays Ward, looked far different from the original destroyer. [28] In addition, in the movie, she fired two shots from her #1 gun turret .
USAT Thomas H. Barry, formerly SS Oriente, was a Ward Line ocean liner that became a United States Army troopship in the Second World War. She was intended for transfer to the United States Navy and assigned the hull number AP-45, but was not transferred and remained with the Army.