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USS ''Gwin'' (DD-433), a ''Gleaves''-class destroyer, was the 3rd ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Commander William Gwin, an American Civil War officer who commanded river boats against Confederate forces in Alabama. ''Gwin'' was launched 25 May 1940 by the Boston Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. Jesse T. Lippincott, second cousin of Lt.Comdr. Gwin; and commissioned at Boston 15 January 1941, Lt.Comdr. J. M. Higgins in command. ''Gwin'' completed shakedown training 20 April 1941 and underwent final alterations in the Boston Navy Yard before conducting neutrality patrol throughout the Caribbean Sea. On 28 September 1941 she assumed identical service in the North Atlantic from her base at Hvalfjörður, Iceland. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, she hurried back to the Eastern Seaboard, then through the Panama Canal to San Francisco, California. ''Gwin'' was sunk by a torpedo launched by a Japanese destroyer during the Battle of Kolombangara in the Solomon Islands Campaign in July 1943. ==Service in the Pacific Theatre== On 3 April 1942 ''Gwin'' stood out of San Francisco Bay as a unit of the escort for the aircraft carrier ''Hornet'' (CV-8), which carried 16 Army B-25 bombers to be launched in a bombing raid on Tokyo. Admiral William F. Halsey in carrier ''Enterprise'' (CV-6) rendezvoused with the task force off Midway, and General Jimmy Doolittle's famed raiders launched the morning of 18 April when some 600 miles east of Tokyo. The task force made a rapid retirement to Pearl Harbor, then sped south 30 April 1942, hoping to assist carriers (CV-5) and ''Lexington'' (CV-2) in the Battle of the Coral Sea. That battle concluded before the task force arrived, and ''Gwin'' returned to Pearl Harbor on 21 May for day and night preparations to meet the Japanese in the crucial battle for Midway Atoll. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Gwin (DD-433)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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