USS Bush (DD 529)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 529
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	12 Feb 1942
Launched	27 Oct 1942
Commissioned	10 May 1943
Lost	6 Apr 1945
Loss position	27° 16'N, 127° 48'E

History	USS Bush (Cdr. Rollin Everton Westholm, USN) was sunk after being hit by three Japanese kamikaze aircraft north-west of Okinawa in position 27º16'N, 127º48'E. 87 of her crew were lost with the ship. Also the commander of DesDiv 48 (Cdr. James Sturgis Willis, USN) was killed aboard USS Bush.

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Wallis Frederick Peterson, USN	10 May 1943	12 Jun 1943
2	Lt.Cdr. Thurmond Augustus Smith, USN	12 Jun 1943	30 May 1944
3	T/Cdr. Rollin Everton Westholm, USN	30 May 1944	6 Apr 1945

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