USS Daly  DD519

Casualty List

Navy

US Navy

Type

Destroyer

Class

Fletcher 

Pennant

DD 519 

Built by

Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.) 

Laid down

29 Apr 1942 

Launched

24 Oct 1942 

Commissioned

10 Mar 1943 

De-commissioned

18 April 1946

End of service

2 May 1960 

History During a suicide attack on 28 April 1945 she took an enemy plane under fire and splashed it at 25 yards off the port beam.  The plane’s bomb exploded, killing three and injuring 16 of Daly’s crew

 

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