HUTCHINS DD 476

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Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

    Fletcher Class Destroyer
    Keel Laid September 27 1941 - Launched February 20 1942

  1. USS HUTCHINS DD-476
    Commissioned November 17 1942
    Heavily damaged (Japanese Suicide Boat) April 27 1945 by off Okinawa
    Decommissioned November 30 1945

    Stricken December 19 1945
    Sold January 10 1948 to Lerner Co., Oakland, CA for scrap

Naval Covers

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Postmarks

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Killer Bar Text

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Locy Type
3z

1942-07-13

Red Commissioning Cachet posted 4 months prior to POE of November 17 1942


 

Locy Type
3z

1942-07-13

Gray Commissioning Cachet posted 4 months prior to POE of November 17 1942



 

NO HUTCHINS POSTMARKS
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Other Information

HUTCHINS received six battle stars for World War II service

NAMESAKE - Carlton Barmore Hutchins (September 12 1904 - February 2 1938)
Hutchins was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in June 1926. On February 2 1938, while piloting a PBY-2 in a tactical exercise off the southern Californian coast, he collided with another PBY-2. Exhibiting courage and coolness, Lt. Hutchins remained at his badly damaged plane's controls, allowing members of his crew to parachute to safety, but was killed in the plane's subsequent crash. For his "extraordinary heroism" on this occasion, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor

 


 

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