USS Kalk (ii) DD611

Casualty List

Navy US Navy
Type Destroyer
Class Bristol 
Pennant DD 611 
Built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.) 
Laid down 30 Jun 1941 
Launched 18 Jul 1942 
Commissioned 17 Oct 1942 
Decommissioned 3 May 1946 
History While on patrol 12 June off the southern coast of Biak, an enemy plane dived out of the sun and released a bomb which struck abaft her forward stack causing severe damage to the ship and 29 casualties among her crew

Stricken 1 June 1968.
Sunk as a target off the coast of Florida 20 March 1969.