About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Benham, USS Truxtun, USS Wantuck, USS Underhill, USS Bull, USS Noa, USS Stormes, USS John A. Bole, USS Ruchamkin, USS Hutchins, USS Charles S. Sperry, USS James C. Owens, USS Strong, USS Mansfield, USS Hopper, USS William J. Pattison, USS Blue, USS Mahan, USS Gyatt, USS Hudson, USS Case, USS Fullam, USNS Benjamin Isherwood, USS Momsen, USS Van Buren, USS Eugene A. Greene, USS Bennett, USNS Henry Eckford, USS Steinaker, USS Jason Dunham, USS Walsh, USNS Henry J. Kaiser, USS Julius A. Raven, USNS John Ericsson, USS Sampson, USNS Leroy Grumman, USS Donald Cook, USS Roosevelt, USS Harold J. Ellison, USS Myles C. Fox. Excerpt: USS Benham (DD-796), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Andrew E. K. Benham (1832-1905). Benham was launched 30 August 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Company, Staten Island, New York; sponsored by Mrs. Harold Benham, wife of a grandson of Rear Admiral Benham; and commissioned 20 December 1943, Commander Erle V. Dennet in command. After fitting out at New York, Benham conducted her initial shakedown training in Long Island Sound before sailing southeast to Bermuda in early January 1944. After arriving in Kingston on the 14th, she carried out four weeks of shore bombardment, anti-submarine, and carrier escort exercises before returning to New York on 13 February. Following post-shakedown availability, she proceeded to Norfolk, Va. on the 28th, joined with Piedmont, and escorted the destroyer tender through the Panama Canal to Hawaii, arriving at Pearl Harbor on 27 March. Benham then conducted destroyer type training-carrier screen exercises, antiaircraft gunnery practice, and antisubmarine drills-in preparation for Operation Forager, the planned invasion of the Marianas. On 24 April, however, the destroyer collide...
