USS Ordronaux
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Ordronaux (DD-617) |
Namesake | John Ordronaux |
Builder | Fore River Shipyard |
Laid down | 25 July 1942 |
Launched | 9 November 1942 |
Commissioned | 13 February 1943 |
Decommissioned | 27 March 1946 |
Stricken | 1 July 1971 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1973 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Benson-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,620 tons |
Length | 348 ft (106 m) |
Beam | 36 ft (11 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 4 in (4.06 m) |
Speed | 37.6 knots (69.6 km/h) |
Complement | 276 |
Armament | 4 × 40 mm , 5 × 21” (533 mm) tt. |
USS Ordronaux (DD–617) was a
Ordronaux was laid down 25 July 1942 by the
Service history
After shakedown, Ordronaux departed
Mediterranean theater
In the invasion of
For nearly a year, following the invasion, Ordronaux sailed back and forth across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean Sea on convoy duty.
North Atlantic theater
On 7 April 1944, while operating with a hunter-killer task unit composed of
Return to the Mediterranean
On 12 May, Ordronaux was back in the Mediterranean with MacKenzie screening Dido while the British cruiser bombarded Terracina and Gaeta on the west coast of Italy in support of the U. S. 5th Army, which was advancing on Rome. For the rest of the month, Ordronaux operated with Dido and Émile Bertin supporting the beachhead at Anzio.
Southern France
On 9 August, Ordronaux was attached to a fire support force for the invasion of southern France. On the 15th, she operated within 3000 yards of the beach providing “call fire” for Navy liaison officers and Army spotters. Many times she was straddled with 88 min projectiles from enemy shore batteries.
After the invasion of southern France, she returned to convoy duty. On 1 May 1945, after returning to New York for alterations, Ordronaux sailed for the Pacific, via the Panama Canal. On 24 July she arrived in Pearl Harbor and sailed immediately for Wake Island. There on 1 August, Ordronaux conducted close fire support, meeting accurate counter-fire.
Pacific theater
Ordronaux arrived at
Post war
Returning to the East Coast, she was assigned local operations off
Awards
Ordronaux earned three
Notable crew
- Tommy Byrne, World War II Gunnery Officer, MLB Pitcher Won 85 Lost 69
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photo gallery at navsource.org