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USS Wedderburn (DD 684)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 684
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (San Pedro, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	14 Jun 1942
Laid down	10 Jun 1943
Launched	1 Aug 1943
Commissioned	9 Mar 1944
End service	1969
History	Decommissioned on 4 April 1946. Recommissioned 21 November 1950. Decommissioned in 1969. Stricken 1 October 1969. Sold 16 December 1971 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Wedderburn (DD 684)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. John Lester Wilfong, USN	9 Mar 1944	14 Aug 1944
2	Lt.Cdr. Charles Hansford Kendall, USN	14 Aug 1944	14 May 1945
3	Lcmdr Robert William Clark, USN	14 May 1945	4 Apr 1946

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Notable events involving Wedderburn include:

CDR John Lester Wilfong Mar 9 1944 - Aug 1944 CDR Charles Hansford Kendall Aug 1944 - Dec 1945 LCDR Robert William Clark Dec 1945 - Apr 4 1946 (Decommissioned Apr 4 1946 - Nov 21 1950) (1)

13 Jul 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off five of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Cushing (Lt.Cdr. W.D. Adams, USN), USS Uhlmann (Cdr. S.C. Small, USN), USS Wedderburn (Lt.Cdr. R.W. Clark, USN), USS Mertz (Cdr. W.S. Maddox, USN) and USS Smalley (Lt.Cdr. H.A. Cassidy, Jr., USN), with fuel.

16 Aug 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. C. Wellborn, Jr., USN) topped off three of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Twining (Cdr. F.V. List, USN), USS Cogswell (Cdr. R.N. Perley, Jr., USN) and USS Wedderburn (Lt.Cdr. R.W. Clark, USN), with fuel.

21 Aug 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. C. Wellborn, Jr., USN) topped off four of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Wedderburn (Lt.Cdr. R.W. Clark, USN), USS Twining (Cdr. F.V. List, USN), USS Stockham (Cdr. D.L. Moody, USN) and USS Frazier, with fuel.

24 Aug 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. C. Wellborn, Jr., USN) topped off three of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Wedderburn (Lt.Cdr. R.W. Clark, USN), USS Stockham (Cdr. D.L. Moody, USN) and USS Twining, with fuel.