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USS Hunt
DD-674
This site honors the USS Hunt, a Fletcher-class destroyer commissioned in 1943, and the sailors who served aboard her.
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.
Launched at Kearny, New Jersey
Earned in the Pacific, 1944–45
USS Franklin crew, March 1945
Crew and families, through 2020
USS Hunt history
The ship’s story
From her shakedown cruise to the carrier screens off Truk, the Philippine Sea and Okinawa, told largely by the men who were there.
World War II
Screening Task Force 58, the Marianas Turkey Shoot, and the rescue of 429 men from the burning USS Franklin.
Battle stars
Battle stars & operations
Marshall Islands to Okinawa: every operation the Hunt took part in, with dates.
After World War II
The Hunt’s later years of service, after her return to the fleet.
The crew
The men who sailed her
Hunt reunions
Every fall, the crew came back aboard
Thirty-two reunions, from San Diego to Portland, Maine, each with a hospitality room, a memorial service and the tolling of the bell. The last was held in San Antonio in 2020.
2020 · 2019 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013 · 2012 · 2011 · 2010 · 2009 · 2008 · 2007 · 2006 · 2005 · 2004 · 2003 · 2002 · 2001
In Memoriam
At every reunion the bell was tolled for shipmates lost that year. Their names are kept here.
Links
More about the Hunt
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Did your family serve aboard?
Send us a name for the memorial roll, a photograph, a story, or a correction. We read every message.