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Welcome aboard<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USS Hunt
DD-674<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

This site honors the USS Hunt, a Fletcher-class destroyer commissioned in 1943, and the sailors who served aboard her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than thirty years her crew and their families met each fall to remember. The reunions have ended, and this site now keeps their record: the ship’s history, the reunions, the photographs, and the names of the shipmates who have crossed the bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read the ship’s history<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
In Memoriam<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Aug 1, 1943<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched at Kearny, New Jersey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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9 battle stars<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earned in the Pacific, 1944\u201345<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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429 rescued<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USS Franklin crew, March 1945<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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32 reunions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crew and families, through 2020<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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USS Hunt history<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ship’s story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From her shakedown cruise to the carrier screens off Truk, the Philippine Sea and Okinawa, told largely by the men who were there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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World War II<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Screening Task Force 58, the Marianas Turkey Shoot, and the rescue of 429 men from the burning USS Franklin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Battle stars<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Battle stars & operations<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Marshall Islands to Okinawa: every operation the Hunt took part in, with dates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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After World War II<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Hunt’s later years of service, after her return to the fleet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n