19 Nov 1941 …..
Laid down/Keel Date, Staten Island, Bethlehem Shipping Corporation
First Commanding Officer: Cdr. J.N. Opie, III
SOURCE: 1,2
07 Jul 1942 …..
Launched
SOURCE: 1
14 Nov 1942 …..
Commissioned
SOURCE: 1
1943 …..
Aleutians Operation
SOURCE: 4
06 Jul – 15 Aug 1943 …..
Re-taking of Kiska
Operation Cottage
Task Group 16.21
SOURCE: 8
1943-1944 …..
Bismarck Archipelago Operation
SOURCE: 4
26 Dec 1943 …..
Bombardment of New Britain
SOURCE: 8,10
1944 …..
Eastern New Guinea Operations
SOURCE: 4
29 Feb 1944 – 18 May 1944 …..
Admiralty Islands Campaign (New Guinea)
Task Group 74
Rear Admiral R.S. Berkey
SOURCE: 8
15 Sep 1944 …..
Destroyers to Morotai
Task Group 77.2
Rear Admiral R.S. Berkey
SOURCE: 8
1944 …..
Hollandia Operation
SOURCE: 4
22 Apr 1944 …..
Hollandia Landings
Operation Reckless
Task Group 77.3
SOURCE: 8
1944 …..
Western New Guinea Operations
SOURCE: 4
~ May/Jun 1944 …..
Biak Island Invasion
Task Force 77
20 Oct 1944 …..
Leyte Operation
Task Force 77
DesRon 24
SOURCE: 8,9
28 Feb and 5 Mar …..
Iwo Jima Operation
SOURCE: 8
1945 …..
Okinawa Gunto Operation
SOURCE: 4
13 May 1945 …..
Battle of Okinawa
Operation Iceburg
Commanding Officer: Lt Comdr. A.R. McFarland
Hit by kamikaze, Okinawa – 41 killed; 32 wounded
SOURCE: 5,8
25 May 1945 …..
Left Okinawa in Convoy OKS-5
SOURCE: 5
13 Jul 1945 …..
Arrived NY Navy Yard
SOURCE: 5
27 Oct 1945 …..
Participant, Presidential Fleet Review, NY Pier
SOURCE: 1
04 Feb 1946 …..
Placed in reserve, Charleston, S.C.
SOURCE: 5
17 Jan 1947 …..
Decommissioned. Laid up in Charleston Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet
SOURCE: 5
21 Jun 1950 …..
Towed to Boston Naval Shipyard
SOURCE: 5
01 Oct 1951 …..
Recommissioned
SOURCE: 1
02 Jan 1951 …..
Reclassifed DDE-470
SOURCE: 1
1954
Assisted in evaluation of the first Nuclear Submarine
SOURCE: 5
Fall 1958
Destroyer Division 282
NATO Manuevers, Europe
SOURCE: 13
Mar 1958
Assigned to Task Group ALFA, experimental group tasked with the development and teaching of antisubmarine defense techniques and procedures
SOURCE: 5
1959
Task Group ALFA anti-submarine exericises in Atlantic
SOURCE: 1
19 Dec 1960
Recovery ship for Mercury-Restone 1-A (unmanned NASA mission)
SOURCE: 6,7
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Deck Log entry: “1115 Rocket for Operation Mercury launched. 1118 Rocket for Operation Mercury spotted in flight off port beam.”
13 Apr 1961 – 26 Apr 1961
Cuba: Bay of Pigs
SOURCE: 3
May 1961
Deployed for Presidential Flight to Paris as part of Task Group 83.4
SOURCE: Bache Decklog for May, 1961
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Deck Log entry: “Steaming independently in accordance with CTG 83.4 operation order 5-61 in Rescue Destroyer Station B for Presidential Flight to Paris, France. OTG is 83.4 in USS Lake Champlain. Immediate Senior is CTU 83.4.2 in USS Eaton. Readiness condition 5 and material condition YOKE are set”
29 Jun 1962 – 11 Aug 1962
Cuba: Cuban Missile Crisis
SOURCE: 3
30 Jun 1962
Reverted to DD-470
SOURCE: 1
13 Oct 1962
Task group 83.2 operating in VACPAES Operating Area in CTG 83.2 operation order 10-62
SOURCE: Bache Deck Log
15 Oct 1962
CTF 148 operation order 1-62 as a detached part of TG 83.2
SOURCE: Bache Deck Log
21 Oct 1962
TG 83.2 off coast of Florida enroute to VACPES OP-AREA in accordance wtih CTG 83.2 OP-ORDER 10-62
SOURCE: Bache Deck Log
25 Oct 1962 – 05 Nov 1962
Cuban Missile Blockade
HUK Group ALFA (composed of carrier, USS Randolf, and destroyers, Bache, Beale, Cony, Eaton and Murray)
SOURCE: 3,11,12
28 Oct 1962
Trailed Russian Submarine C-19 (aka B-59)
Bache Deck Log Entry: “Steaming as before. 1204 Took position 3000 yards ahead of Russian submarine Prosnablavst. Set course 080, speed 10kts.”
SOURCE: Bache Deck Logs
10 May 1963 – 23 May 1963
Haitian Contingency Operation
Naval Task Force 24
Commander Task Group 44.9
14 May 1965 – 15 May 1965
Dominican Republic Intervention
SOURCE: 3
1965 – 1966
Vietnam
SOURCE: 3
06 Feb 1968
Wrecked, Rhode Island, Greece
SOURCE: 1
26 Feb 1968
Decommissioned
SOURCE: 5
01 Mar 1968
Name struck from Navy list
SOURCE: 1
