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USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), was the lead ship of her class of destroyers. The ship was named for Allen Melancthon Sumner , a United States Marine Corps captain , who was killed in action during World War I .
The Allen M. Sumner design was extended 14 feet (4.3 m) amidships to become the Gearing class, which was produced in larger numbers but did not see significant service in World War II. Completed in 1943–45, four Sumners were lost in the war and two were damaged so badly they were scrapped, but the surviving ships served in the US Navy into ...
The destroyers, DD-333 and DD-692, were named after World War I Marine Corps Captain Allen Melancthon Sumner. The survey ships, AGS-5 and T-AGS-61, were named after the 19th century Navy captain Thomas Hubbard Sumner. The first USS Sumner (DD-333) was a Clemson-class destroyer commissioned in 1921 and decommissioned in 1930.
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Willford Milton Hyman was born on 16 August 1901 in Pueblo, Colorado. he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1924. He first served on the battleship USS New Mexico and in the years before World War II, was assigned to many ships and a variety of shore stations, including the Office of Naval Operations.
The USS Sumner (DD-333) was a ship of the United States Navy (USN) during the interwar period. During World War II, Sumner was honoured as the namesake of the newly developed Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers, a class of 58 destroyers, of which the lead ship was USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692).
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 Pennsylvania. This is a list of ships of the line of the United States Navy. Because of the operating expense, a number of these were never launched. These ships ...