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Piedmont left port to ride out the storm. After several days at sea, the USS Piedmont pulled into Sasebo. Most of the cruise was spent in Subic doing ship repair on other
Westpac ships. The USS Piedmont was relieved by the Prairie in Yokosuka, Japan and upon leaving was ordered to replenish and refuel destroyers on station off the coast of Russia. After a 7 month cruise, the
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Aggression (25 September to 15 October 1950), Second Korean Winter (to 10 January 1952 and 6 to 7 February 1952), Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952 (23 September to 3 October 1952 and 19 to 23 November 1952), and Third Korean Winter (28 to 30 December 1952 and 24 to 25 January 1953).
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which came alongside 4 May. Her entire bridge superstructure was a mass of tangled wreckage, a bomb explosion had blown a 15-by-15-foot hole in her starboard side, main deck; her forward stack had been completely destroyed; extensive bomb damage extended down to her second platform, and her interior
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and purchased outright by Turkey. On 17 August she was transferred to Turkey under the
Security Assistance Program (SAP), Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) Section 516, Southern Region Amendment. She was deleted from the Turkish navy's register in 1994 and scrapped a year later.
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decks and superstructure, most of them ricocheting off. One man suffered fatal injuries from a direct hit by the base of a 5-inch (130 mm) shell. One 250 pound aerial bomb penetrated the movie locker on the boat deck while another pierced the
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2017:Saginaw Bay
1770:Hokkai Maru
1732:Seisho Maru
1717:Scharnhorst
1567:Gokoku Maru
1372:New England
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914:Tonkin Gulf
908:Vietnam War
843:steamed to
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359:, Inc., in
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2192:1942 ships
2161:Categories
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2003:Potawatomi
1989:Petrof Bay
1982:Oberrender
1806:Shimotsuki
1800:Shawinigan
1798:HMCS
1746:HMAS
1660:Hatsu Maru
1626:HMAS
1574:Mount Hood
1471:Abner Read
1460:Shipwrecks
1139:References
1117:Korean War
927:, Taiwan.
772:Korean War
725:Sagami Wan
624:Gansevoort
571:forecastle
566:Piedmont's
538:Mount Hood
534:Mount Hood
528:Mount Hood
510:Mount Hood
463:Task Force
344:, and the
342:Korean War
334:destroyers
271:Complement
255:Propulsion
160:Leased to
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2094:Spearfish
2092:USS
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2043:USS
2029:USS
2022:USS
2015:USS
2010:Preserver
2008:USS
1994:USS
1987:USS
1980:USS
1973:USS
1966:USS
1959:USS
1952:HMS
1945:USS
1938:USS
1931:USS
1924:USS
1917:USS
1910:USS
1824:Yasoshima
1777:Stratagem
1775:HMS
1739:USS
1691:USS
1654:Hatsuharu
1619:Wakatsuki
1601:Shimakaze
1593:USS
1572:USS
1549:USS
1533:USS
1482:HMS
1469:USS
1365:modified
925:Kaohsiung
845:Kaohsiung
713:Tokyo Bay
681:Hazelwood
674:Hazelwood
672:USS
653:USS
641:USS
622:USS
546:USS
526:USS
512:explosion
491:USS
483:USS
432:destroyer
187:1982–1994
107:Laid down
1996:Piedmont
1975:Mindanao
1912:Abarenda
1648:Akishimo
1588:Naganami
1582:Hamanami
1535:Albacore
1492:Fort Lee
1484:Whitaker
1369:-class:
1352:Yosemite
1338:Piedmont
1263:Piedmont
1129:Piedmont
1110:Piedmont
1106:Piedmont
1098:and the
1092:Piedmont
1075:Piedmont
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857:Piedmont
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791:flagship
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709:Piedmont
693:Piedmont
668:Piedmont
649:Piedmont
643:McDermut
634:Piedmont
606:Iwo Jima
602:Lingayen
598:Piedmont
594:Piedmont
562:Piedmont
558:Mindanao
554:Piedmont
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522:Piedmont
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444:Piedmont
436:Piedmont
425:Piedmont
409:Piedmont
388:Piedmont
376:Disney's
338:Cold War
328:for the
310:Piedmont
279:Armament
147:Stricken
115:Launched
85:Piedmont
80:Namesake
74:Piedmont
35:Piedmont
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1940:Cacapon
1926:Argonne
1880:Mogador
1872:Shinano
1860:Fushimi
1762:Urakaze
1711:Shin'yĹŤ
1684:Okinami
1642:Akebono
1634:Tirpitz
1628:Marlean
1551:Growler
1542:LST-420
1508:Kiebitz
1500:Akikaze
1331:Prairie
1242:30 June
806:WestPac
661:carrier
630:Mindoro
610:Okinawa
588:in the
485:Saufley
398:History
312:(AD–17)
290:23 Ă— 1
92:Builder
50:History
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2053:U-1052
2024:Talbot
1919:Alhena
1892:U-1020
1846:PB-105
1812:Sumida
1793:Kumano
1748:ML 827
1705:NKI 01
1613:U-1200
1520:PB-107
1388:Altair
1345:Sierra
1182:23 May
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882:Lo Kee
853:Quemoy
814:Sasebo
729:Honshū
608:, and
586:Ulithi
493:Killen
340:, the
319:-class
314:was a
296:4 Ă— 2
284:4 Ă— 1
231:Length
204:-class
2045:Young
1968:Lyman
1954:Hydra
1933:Aries
1886:U-479
1866:I-365
1832:Rigel
1818:U-482
1785:Hansa
1756:KongĹŤ
1693:LST-6
1607:U-771
1595:Scamp
1559:U-537
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1399:class
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1390:class
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1324:Dixie
1310:Dixie
1071:Derya
884:near
802:CONUS
697:Leyte
479:Manus
392:Derya
361:Tampa
317:Dixie
274:1,181
263:Speed
247:Draft
202:Dixie
185:Derya
180:Notes
100:Tampa
2131:1945
2123:1944
2115:1943
2103:Duff
2036:USS
2001:USS
1961:Kyne
1947:Cebu
1852:Yu 2
1840:U-80
1726:I-41
1714:(ex-
1678:Kiso
1672:I-38
1666:I-12
1526:TA21
1477:TA20
1244:2007
1184:2024
1061:was
818:Kobe
655:Hale
540:and
489:and
481:and
468:Guam
308:USS
239:Beam
213:Type
155:Fate
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69:Name
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