Allied Warships

USS Litchfield (DD 336)

Destroyer of the Clemson class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	DD 336
Built by	Mare Island Navy Yard (Vallejo, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	15 Jan 1919
Launched	12 Aug 1919
Commissioned	12 May 1920
End service	5 Nov 1945
History	Reclassified as miscellaneous auxiliary AG-95 on 31 March 1945 Decommissioned 5 November 1945 Stricken 28 November 1945 Scrapping was completed by the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 29 March 1946.

Commands listed for USS Litchfield (DD 336)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Murvale Talcott Farrar, USN	26 Apr 1939	7 May 1940
2	Lt.Cdr. William Penn McCarty, USN	7 May 1940	9 Jan 1941
3	Lt.Cdr. Frank Haywood Ball, USN	9 Jan 1941	21 Dec 1942 (1)
4	T/Lt.Cdr. James Harry Campbell, USN	21 Dec 1942	4 Aug 1943
5	T/Cdr. John Rowland McKnight, Jr., USN	4 Aug 1943	10 Oct 1943
6	T/Lt.Cdr. Harry Clark Maynard, USN	10 Oct 1943	1 Feb 1944
7	Lt.(jg) Albert Francis Hollingsworth, USN	1 Feb 1944	23 Dec 1944
8	Edward Lewis Holtz, USNR	23 Dec 1944	9 Jul 1945
9	Maynard James Natheson, USNR	9 Jul 1945	30 Sep 1945

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Notable events involving Litchfield include:

7 Jan 1943
USS Seadragon (Lt.Cdr. W.E. Ferrall) ended her 5th war patrol at Pearl Harbor. She was escorted in by USS Litchfield (Lt.Cdr. J.H. Campbell, USN).

9 Jan 1943
USS Seadragon (Lt.Cdr. W.E. Ferrall) departed Pearl Harbor for the Mare Island Navy Yard where she was to refit. She was escorted out by USS Litchfield (Lt.Cdr. J.H. Campbell, USN).

26 Mar 1944
USS Seadragon (Cdr. R.L. Rutter, USN) conducted exercises off Pearl Harbour together with USS Mitchell (Lt.Cdr. M.S. Erdahl, USNR), USS Litchfield (Lt. A.F. Hollingsworth, USN) and USS Guavina (Cdr. C. Tiedeman, USN).