Allied Warships

USS Haggard (DD 555)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 555
Built by	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	27 Mar 1942
Launched	9 Feb 1943
Commissioned	31 Aug 1943
End service	1 Nov 1945
History	Heavily damaged by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft on 29 April 1945 while off Okinawa. Decommissioned 1 November 1945. Stricken 16 November 1945. Sold in 1946 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Haggard (DD 555)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. David Alonzo Harris, USN	31 Aug 1943	30 Jan 1945
2	Verner Jensen Soballe, USN	30 Jan 1945	26 Sep 1945

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Notable events involving Haggard include:

21 Apr 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) departed Ulithi for the Okinawa area. Passage was made together with the aircraft carrier Shangri La (Capt. J.D. Barner, USN). They were escorted by the destroyers Haggard (Lt.Cdr. V.J. Soballe, USN) and USS Stembel (Cdr. M.S. Schmidling, USN).

For the daily positions of USS Iowa during these operations see the map below.