Allied Warships

USS Dallas (DD 199)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	DD 199
Built by	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	25 Nov 1918
Launched	31 May 1919
Commissioned	29 Oct 1920
End service	28 Jul 1945
History	Decommissioned 26 June 26 1922 Recommissioned 14 April 14 1925 Decommissioned 25 March 25 1939 Recommissioned 25 September 1939 Renamed Alexander Dallas on 31 March 1945 Decommissioned 28 July 1945 Stricken 13 August 1945 Sold 30 November 1945 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Dallas (DD 199)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. John James Laffan, USN	25 Sep 1939	Dec 1940
2	Lt.Cdr. Harman Brown Bell, Jr., USN	Dec 1940	23 Nov 1941
3	Lt. Benjamin Katz, USN	23 Nov 1941	2 May 1942
4	Ferguson John Norwood, Jr., USN	2 May 1942	14 May 1942
5	Lt.Cdr. Robert Brodie, Jr., USN	14 May 1942	11 Dec 1942
6	T/Cdr. Anthony Carroll Roessler, USN	11 Dec 1942	6 Feb 1944
7	Lt. John Warren Coolidge, USNR	6 Feb 1944	15 May 1944
8	Newton Charles Smith, USNR	15 May 1944	25 May 1945
9	Lt. Arthur Scott Bell, Jr., USNR	25 May 1945	28 Jul 1945

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Notable events involving Dallas include:

9 Nov 1942
Port-Lyautey, Morocco On the night of 9–10 November 1942 a tactical innovation involving the Navy raised American spirits. On the Sebou River the destroyer-transport Dallas pushed aside a barricade and sneaked upstream with a raider detachment to spearhead the assault on thelocal airfield. On the river the Dallas passed a gauntlet of artillery fire and debarked the raiders on the east side of the airfield. (1)