USS Ammen  DD 527

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Navy The US Navy
Type Destroyer
Class Fletcher 
Pennant DD 527 
Built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) 
Laid down 29 Nov 1941
Launched 17 Sep 1942 
Commissioned 20 Mar 1943 
Decommissioned 15 April 1946.
Recommissioned 5 April 1951.
End service 15 Nov 1960 
History 5 crew Killed during November 1944 when a (Yokosuka P1Y) bomber hit ship,and 1 man was lost overboard in Aleutian Islands.Dec.1943
  Collided in fog with USS Collett (DD 730) on 19 July 1960 while en-route to San Diego for decommissioning, 11 of USS Ammen's crew were killed in this accident.
Decommissioned 15 September 15 1960.
Stricken 1 October 1960.
Sold 21 March 1964 and broken up for scrap.  

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