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Joseph P. McCaffery was born on 20 August 1906 in Chester, Pennsylvania.He accepted a commission in the United States Marine Corps Reserves in March 1929, after resigning a commission in the Army Reserve held from 1927 as a graduate of Pennsylvania Military College, now Widener University.
USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) is a former United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer.The ship was named after Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator, son of the former U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and older brother of future President John F. Kennedy.
Lardner was named for James L. Lardner.She was launched by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Squantum, Massachusetts, 29 September 1919; sponsored by Miss Margaret Large, granddaughter of Rear Admiral Lardner; and commissioned 10 December 1919.
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...
USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy.She is named in honor of both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, the then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) is a United States Navy class of destroyer centered around the Aegis Combat System and the SPY-1D multi-function passive electronically scanned array radar.
During the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Phelps shot down one enemy plane. In February and March 1942, she served as part of the destroyer screen for Task Force 11, including the carrier USS Lexington, in an attack in the Huon Gulf off Lae and in an attack on Salamaua, New Guinea, over the Owen Stanley mountain range from the Gulf of Papua, 10 March 1942.
Clemson cruised in United States East Coast and Cuban waters until placed in reserve with 50% complement at Norfolk Navy Yard o 13 June 1920. She lay there and later at the Charleston Navy Yard and Boston Navy Yard until she steamed to the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where she was decommissioned 30 June 1922.
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