Allied Warships

USS Conway (ii) (DD 507)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassFletcher 
PennantDD 507 
Built byBath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.) 
Ordered9 Sep 1940 
Laid down5 Nov 1941 
Launched16 Aug 1942 
Commissioned9 Oct 1942 
End service 
History

Decommissioned 25 June 1946.
Reclassified as DDE-507 on 26 March 1949.
Recommissioned 8 November 1950.
Reverted back to DD-507 on 30 June 1962.
Stricken 15 November 1969.
Sunk as a target on 26 June 1970.

 

Commands listed for USS Conway (ii) (DD 507)

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CommanderFromTo
1Nathaniel Scudder Prime, USN9 Oct 194216 Oct 1943 (1)
2Harold Gardiner Bowen, Jr., USN16 Oct 194325 May 1944 (1)
3John Henry Besson, Jr., USN25 May 194413 Jul 1945 (1)
4Arthur Gernt Harrison, USN13 Jul 194525 Jun 1946 (1)

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Media links


Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers
Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.
Roscoe, Theodore

Sources

  1. http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/507.htm

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