Allied Warships

USS Wren (DD 568)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 568
Built by	Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	24 Apr 1943
Launched	29 Jan 1944
Commissioned	20 May 1944
End service	Oct 1963
History	Decommissioned 13 July 1946. Recommissioned 7 September 1951. Decommissioned in October 1963. Stricken 1 December 1974. Sold 22 October 1975 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Wren (DD 568)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Edwin Anderson McDonald, USN	20 May 1944	31 Aug 1945
2	Clayton Ross, Jr., USN	31 Aug 1945	13 Jul 1946

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Notable events involving Wren include:

4 Jul 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off three of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Wren (Cdr. E.A. McDonald, USN), USS Watts (Lt.Cdr. C.S. Hart, USN) and USS Remey (Lt.Cdr. J.B. Balch, USN), with fuel.