Allied Warships

USS Borie (ii) (DD 704)

Destroyer of the Allen M. Sumner class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Allen M. Sumner
Pennant	DD 704
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	29 Feb 1944
Launched	4 Jul 1944
Commissioned	21 Sep 1944
End service	1 Jul 1972
History	Decommissioned and stricken 1 July 1972. Transferred to Argentina 1 July 1972 being renamed Hipolito Bouchard. Hipolito Bouchard was stricken and broken up for scrap in 1984.

Commands listed for USS Borie (ii) (DD 704)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Noah Adair, Jr., USN	21 Sep 1944	31 Oct 1945
2	T/Cdr. John Chapman Morgan, USN	31 Oct 1945	12 Nov 1946

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Notable events involving Borie (ii) include:

4 Jan 1945
USS Borie arrived at Pearl Harbor to join the Pacific fleet.

9 Aug 1945
USS Borie (Cmdr Noah Adair, jr.) is hit by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft east of Honshu, Japan in position 37°21'N, 143°45'E. Borie was hit between the mast and the 5-inch gun director causing extensive damage. 48 men were killed and 66 men were wounded.