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USS Eaton (DD-510) was a Fletcher-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946. She was recommissioned from 1951 to 1969 and sunk as a target in 1970. She was recommissioned from 1951 to 1969 and sunk as a target in 1970.
DD-445 Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey: 2 October 1941 ... Eaton DD-510 17 March 1942 20 September 1942 4 December 1942 21 June 1946
The destroyer USS Eaton (DD-510) got underway from the anchorage at Jaluit Atoll to intercept Ro-41. [4] The destroyer escorts USS Greiner (DE-37) and USS Sanders (DE-40) later joined Eaton. [4] Ro-41 left Truk on 24 May 1944 as scheduled and set course for Kusaie with a cargo of 12 metric tons of rice. [4]
At Norfolk Naval Base in the opening months of World War II, Lieutenant John W. Harkness, a newly commissioned officer, bids goodbye to wife Ellie and reports aboard the PC-1168 unaware that his civilian background in engineering and his Rutgers education has elected him, by means of a hole punched in an IBM card, to head a secret project and command the ship.
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 Indianapolis: Men of Courage (also titled USS Indianapolis: Disaster in the Philippine Sea) is a 2016 American war disaster film directed by Mario Van Peebles and written by Cam Cannon and Richard Rionda Del Castro, based largely on the true story of the loss of the ship of the same name in the closing stages of the Second World War.
Submarine Command is a 1951 American war film directed by John Farrow and starring William Holden, Don Taylor, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, and Darryl Hickman.It is notable for being one of the first films to touch on post traumatic stress disorder.
This section of the list of United States Navy ships contains all ships of the United States Navy with names beginning with D, E and F. . For a list exclusively of currently commissioned ships, see the List of current ships of the United States Navy.