USS Montgomery (DM 17)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Wickes
Pennant	DM 17
Mod	Destroyer minelayer
Built by	Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	2 Oct 1917
Launched	23 Mar 1918
Commissioned	26 Jul 1918
End service	23 Mar 1945
History	Decommissioned on 6 June 1922. Reclassified as Light Minelayer DM-17 on 5 January 1931. Recommissioned on 20 August 1931. Decommissioned on 7 December 1937. Recommissioned on 25 September 1939. Montgomery was damaged beyond repair by a mine in Ngulu Lagoon in the Caroline Islands on 17 October 1944. Decommissioned on 23 April 1945. Stricken on 28 April 1945. Sold to be broken up for scrap on 11 March 1946.

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Donald Fitzroy McLean, USN	25 Sep 1939	2 Apr 1941 (1)
2	Lt.Cdr. Richard Allen Guthrie, USN	2 Apr 1941	10 Apr 1942 (1)
3	T/Lt.Cdr. John Andrews, Jr., USN	10 Apr 1942	1 Apr 1943
4	Lt. Dwight Lyman Moody, USN	1 Apr 1943	1 Nov 1943
5	Edward Herman Inman, USNR	1 Nov 1943	23 May 1944
6	Lt.Cdr. Dan Thomas Drain, USN	23 May 1944	23 Apr 1945 (1)

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