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USS Saufley (DD 465)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 465
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	1 Jul 1940
Laid down	27 Jan 1942
Launched	19 Jul 1942
Commissioned	29 Aug 1942
End service	29 Jan 1965
History	Decommissioned 12 June 1946 Reclassified as DDE-465 on 26 March 1949. Recommissioned 15 December 1949. Reverted back to DD- 465 on 30 June 1962. Decommissioned 29 January 1965. Stricken 1 September 1966. Sunk as a target off Key West, Florida on 20 February 1968.

Commands listed for USS Saufley (DD 465)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Bert Franklin Brown, USN	29 Aug 1942	6 Dec 1943
2	Dale Eugene Cochran, USN	6 Dec 1943	12 Feb 1945
3	Francis William Silk, USN	12 Feb 1945	18 Apr 1946

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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

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