USS Day
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Name | USS Day |
Namesake | Chief Petty Officer Francis Daniel Day |
Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
Laid down | 15 July 1943 |
Launched | 14 October 1943 |
Sponsored by | Miss G. Day (sister of Francis Day) |
Commissioned | 10 June 1944 |
Decommissioned | 16 May 1946 |
Stricken | 30 June 1968 |
Honors and awards | Two battle stars for World War II service |
Fate | Sunk as target 1 March 1969 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Rudderow |
Type | Destroyer escort |
Displacement | 1,450 tons |
Length | 306 feet |
Beam | 36 feet, 10 inches |
Draft | 9 feet 8 inches |
Speed | 24 knots |
Complement | 186 |
Armament |
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USS Day (DE-225) was a
.Namesake
Francis Daniel Day was born on 25 July 1904 in Milburn, New Jersey. He enlisted in the Navy on 12 January 1925 and served continuously until his death on the USS Oklahoma during the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Chief Water Tender Day was posthumously awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for risking his life to assist 15 of the crew to escape from a flooded compartment through a submerged porthole.
Construction and commissioning
Day was
Service history
Departing
Detached from this duty at Leyte on 4 January 1945, she escorted a convoy of 56 tugs and tows to Lingayen Gulf at Luzon in the Philippines, fighting off three attacks by Japanese planes before her arrival at the newly invaded beaches there on 14 January 1945. Returning to Leyte on 18 January 1945, Day sailed a week later for the invasion of the San Antonio-San Felipe area of Luzon which had already been taken by Philippine guerrilla forces.
During February 1945 Day operated locally out of
From 22 July to 22 August 1945, Day escorted convoys between Ulithi and Leyte.
Day remained in the Philippines after World War II ended on 15 August 1945 until 18 December 1945, when she departed for
Disposal
Day was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 June 1968 and sunk as a target in the Pacific Ocean off San Clemente Island, California, on 1 March 1969.[1]
Awards
Day received two
References
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This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.