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USS Brooks (DD 232)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	DD 232
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	11 Jun 1918
Launched	24 Apr 1919
Commissioned	18 Jun 1920
End service	2 Aug 1945
History	Decommissioned 20 January 1931 Recommissioned 18 June 1932 Decommissioned 2 September 1938 Recommissioned 25 April 1939 Reclassified as High Speed Transport APD-10 on 1 December 1942 Heavily damaged by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft on 6 January 6 1945, 3 casualties Decommissioned 2 August 1945 Stricken 17 September 1945 Sold 30 January 1946 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Brooks (DD 232)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Elliot Bowman Strauss, USN	17 May 1939	12 Dec 1940
2	Charles Tod Singleton, Jr., USN	21 Dec 1940	7 Oct 1942 (1)
3	Lt.Cdr. John William Ramey, USN	7 Oct 1942	9 Aug 1943
4	Charles Vernon Allen, USNR	9 Aug 1943	7 Aug 1944
5	S C Rasmussen, Jr., USNR	7 Aug 1944	21 Aug 1945

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Destroyers of World War Two Whitley, M. J. amazon.com ($ 69.56)

U.S. Destroyers Friedman, Norman

United States Destroyer Operations In World War II. Roscoe, Theodore

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