Allied Warships

USS Marshall (DD 676)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 676
Built by	Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered	14 Jun 1942
Laid down	19 Apr 1943
Launched	29 Aug 1943
Commissioned	16 Oct 1943
End service
History	Decommissioned 1n December 1945. Recommissioned 27 April 1951. Decommissioned in or before 1969. Stricken 19 July 1969. Sold in July 1970 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Marshall (DD 676)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Sinclair Best Wright, USN	16 Oct 1943	14 Mar 1944
2	Lt.Cdr. Joseph Dwight McKinney, USN	14 Mar 1944	9 May 1945
3	Charles Holovak, USN	9 May 1945	15 Dec 1945

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Notable events involving Marshall include:

13 Dec 1943
Around 1715 hours USS Halsey Powell (Cdr. W.T. McGarry, USN), USS Marshall (Cdr. J.D. McKinney, USN), USS Wadleigh (Cdr. W.C. Winn, USN) took over the escort of USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) from USS Hall (Cdr. J.F. Delaney, Jr., USN), USS Halligan (Cdr. C.E. Cortner, USN) and USS Macomb (Cdr. J.C. South, USN) which were then detached.

23 Sep 1944
In the morning USS Iowa (Capt. A.R. McCann, USN) fuelled three destroyers attached to the Task Group, USS Tingey (Cdr. J.O. Miner, USN), USS Stephen Potter (Cdr. L.W. Pancoast, USN) and USS Cushing (Cdr. L.F. Volk, USN).

In the evening Iowa herself fuelled from the USS Chikaskia (Lt.Cdr. G. Zimmerman, USNR).

6 May 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off two of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS McCord (Cdr. F.D. Michael, USN) and USS Cushing (Cdr. L.F. Volk, USN), with fuel.