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USS Frankford

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for the pinned down US assault, then joined the area screen. The Frankford turned broadside in order to train all four of its 5" guns on German machine gun nests. The action allowed troops to more successfully land on the beach. Along with rescuing survivors of
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served on an air-sea rescue station in the eastern Mediterranean during the President's flight out and back, and returned to New York on 27 February. The destroyer made antisubmarine patrols along the Atlantic coast and guarded
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patrolled off the invasion beaches 13 August and the days that followed. On the night of 17/18 August, she and another destroyer engaged a group of enemy
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and other ships to training in Scottish waters and to the assembly points in the south of England, until 5 June, when she sortied from Plymouth for
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training prospective crews for new construction until 18 April 1944 when she sailed from
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for the east coast. On 4 March 1946, she was decommissioned and placed in reserve at
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until 21 January 1945, when she sailed from Norfolk for a rendezvous off the
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between 27 June 1943 and 29 November. She then returned to coastal escort,
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attacks. Aside from two one-day voyages to Plymouth for stores and fuel,
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was purchased by the Republic of China Navy for spare parts)
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in training until 10 May, when she arrived at New York.
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Index

USS Frankford (DD-497)
Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation
Puerto Rico
Gleaves-class
destroyer
5 in (127 mm)
DP
Bofors 40 mm guns
0.50 in (12.7 mm)
20 mm
21 inch (533 mm)
torpedo tubes
depth charge
Gleaves-class
destroyer
ship
United States Navy
privateer
Quasi-War
France
launched
Seattle
Washington
commissioned
convoys
Casablanca
Northern Ireland
antisubmarine
Norfolk
New York

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