Allied Warships

USS Douglas H. Fox (DD 779)

Destroyer of the Allen M. Sumner class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Allen M. Sumner
Pennant	DD 779
Built by	Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc. (Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	31 Jan 1944
Launched	30 Sep 1944
Commissioned	26 Dec 1944
End service	15 Dec 1973
History	Decommissioned 21 April and recommissioned 15 November 1950. Decommissioned and stricken 15 December 1973. Transferred to Chile 8 January 1974 being renamed Ministro Portales. Ministro Portales was stricken in 1990. Ministro Portales was sunk off Cape Horn on 11 November 1998 at 15:47hours (Chilean time).

Commands listed for USS Douglas H. Fox (DD 779)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Ray Maurer Pitts, USN	26 Dec 1944	13 Dec 1945

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Notable events involving Douglas H. Fox include:

31 Mar 1945
USS Douglas H. Fox arrived at Pearl Harbor.

21 Apr 1945
USS Douglas H. Fox departed from Pearl Harbor bound for Okinawa.

5 May 1945
USS Douglas H. Fox arrived in the Okinawa area.

17 May 1945
USS Douglas H. Fox (Cmdr Raymond Maurer Pitts) is damaged by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft off Okinawa in position 25°59'N, 126°54'E. 7 members of her crew were killed and 35 were wounded in this attack.

23 Jun 1945
USS Douglas H. Fox arrived at San Francisco, California to repair the damage done in the May 17th attack.