Allied Warships

USS Flusser (DD 368)

Destroyer of the Mahan class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Mahan
Pennant	DD 368
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	4 Jun 1934
Launched	28 Sep 1935
Commissioned	1 Oct 1936
End service	16 Dec 1945
History	Decommissioned 16 December 1945 Stricken 7 April 1947 Sold 6 January 1948 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Flusser (DD 368)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. George Hetherington Lyttle, USN	12 Jun 1939	2 Dec 1941 (1)
2	Lt.Cdr. William Gordon Beecher, Jr., USN	4 Dec 1941	18 Apr 1942 (1)
3	Lt.Cdr. Lermond Horton Miller, USN	18 Apr 1942	Nov 1942
4	T/Cdr. Josephus Amberg Robbins, USN	Nov 1942	5 Jan 1944 (1)
5	T/Cdr. Theodore Robert Vogeley, USN	5 Jan 1944	30 Dec 1944 (1)
6	Kenneth George Robinson, USN	30 Dec 1944	20 Aug 1945
7	Felix Eugene DeGulian, Jr., USNR	20 Aug 1945	12 Nov 1945

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Notable events involving Flusser include:

4 Jul 1942
HrMs Tromp (Cdr. J.B. de Meester, RNN) departed Sydney as escort for convoy ZK 11 that was to proceed to Fremantle. Convoy ZK 11 was made up of the Australian liner Duntroon (10346 GRT, built 1935) and the Australian Armed Merchant Cruisers HMAS Manoora (A/Capt. J.M. Armstrong, RAN) and HMAS Westralia (A/Capt. (emergency) H.V. Hudson, OBE, RAN).

The American destroyer USS Flusser ( Lt.Cdr. L.H. Miller, USN) was also part of the escort until 0600/5 when she returned to Sydney as previously ordered. (2)