Allied Warships

USS Meade (ii) (DD 602)

Destroyer of the Bristol class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Bristol
Pennant	DD 602
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.)
Ordered	16 Dec 1940
Laid down	25 Mar 1941
Launched	15 Feb 1942
Commissioned	22 Jun 1942
End service	17 Jun 1946
History	Decommissioned 17 June 1946. Stricken 1 January 1971. Sunk as a target off the coast of Florida 18 February 1973.

Commands listed for USS Meade (ii) (DD 602)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Raymond Starr Lamb, USN	22 Jun 1942	10 Jun 1943
2	T/Cdr. John Munholland, USN	10 Jun 1943	11 Oct 1944
3	T/Lt.Cdr. Richard Gary Colbert, USN	11 Oct 1944	12 Dec 1945 (1)
4	Robert Stephen Guy, USN	12 Dec 1945	17 Jun 1946

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Notable events involving Meade (ii) include:

19 Jul 1942
USS R-12 (Lt. E.E. Shelby, USN) participated in A/S exercises of Guantanamo Bay together with USS Mervine (Lt.Cdr. S.D. Willingham, USN) and USS Meade (Lt.Cdr. R.S. Lamb, USN).

20 Jul 1942
USS R-12 (Lt. E.E. Shelby, USN) participated in A/S exercises of Guantanamo Bay together with USS Mervine (Lt.Cdr. S.D. Willingham, USN) and USS Meade (Lt.Cdr. R.S. Lamb, USN).

17 Mar 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) departed Majoro Atoll as part of Task Group 50.10 which was to bombard Milli Island. The other ships of the task force were battleship USS New Jersey (Capt. C.F. Holden, USN) and destroyers USS Dewey (Lt.Cdr. R.G. Copeland, USN), USS Hull (Lt.Cdr. C.W. Consolvo, USN), USS MacDonough (Cdr. J.W. Ramey, USN) and USS Phelps (Lt.Cdr. D.L. Martineau, USN). Air cover was provided by fleet carrier USS Lexington (Capt. F.B. Stump, USN) escorted by destroyers USS Bancoft (Cdr. R.M. Pitts, USN), USS Meade (Cdr. J. Munholland, USN) and USS Edwards (Cdr. P.G. Osler, USN).

For the daily positions of USS Iowa during this operation see the map below.