USS Bache (DD-470)

Navy	US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 470
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.)
Laid down	19 Nov 1941
Launched	7 Jul 1942
Commissioned	14 Nov 1942
Lost	1 Mar 1968
Loss position	On 13 May, several enemy dive-bombers attacked the picket station and one completed a successful kamikaze attack on Bache.its bomb exploding above the main deck.        Forty-one of the crew were killed and 32 were injured.
History	Decommissioned 4 February 1946.
	Reclassified as DDE-470 on 2 January 1951. Recommissioned 1 October 1951. Reverted back to DD-470 on 30 June 1962. Wrecked on the Island of Rhodes, Greece on 6 February 1968. Decommissioned 1 March 1968. Stricken 1 March 1968.