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USS Underhill, a 1400-ton Buckley class destroyer escort built at Quincy, Massachusetts, was commissioned in November 1943. She served in the Atlantic as a convoy escort and training support ship until February 1945, when she was sent to the Pacific. On 24 July 1945, while escorting a troop convoy from Okinawa to Leyte, Underhill was sunk by a Japanese kaiten manned torpedo. Nearly half of her crew were lost with the ship.
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Photo #: 19-N-66696 USS Underhill (DE-682) Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 21 June 1944. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 45KB; 740 x 575 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 19-N-66695 USS Underhill (DE-682) Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 21 June 1944. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 47KB; 740 x 555 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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2 November 1998