"
The Ship That Would Not Die"
Timeline
Awards: WWII Victory Medal
Awards: Meritorious Unit Commendation
Awards: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Service Medal
4 Battle Stars
Awards: National Defense Service Medal (1st Award)
Awards: American Campaign Service Medal
8 Mar 1944
Awards: Presidential Unit Citation
Okinawa
Awards: European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
1 Battle Star
Awards: Navy Battle "E" Ribbon
date unknown
Awards: Korea Service Medal
2 Battle Stars
Awards: UN Service Medal
Korea
Awards: Philippine Liberation Medal
2 Bronze Stars
Awards: Naval Reserve Sea Service Ribbon
date unknown
Awards: Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Awards: Philippine Independence Medal
4 July 1946
Awards: ROK Presidential Unit Citation
Mar 1952
Awards: National Defense Service Medal (2nd Award)
Battle Honors (WWII): Consolidation of the Southern Philippines
28 July 2020
Battle Honors (WWII): Leyte Operation
10 Dec 2016
Battle Honors (WWII): Luzon Operation
Battle Honors (WWII): Invasion of Normandy
6 June 2025
Battle Honors (WWII): Okinawa Gunto Operation
17 June 2030
Naval Service: Commissioned
8 Feb 1944
Naval Service: Decommissioned to Reserve
30 June 1947
Naval Service: Launched
21 Nov 1943
Naval Service: Laid Down
28 June 1943
Builder: Bath Iron Works
Bath, ME
Deployments: 9-16 March 1954
Korea
Battle Honors (Korea): Second Korean Winter
Battle Honors (Korea): Korean Defense, Summer-Fall 1952
1 Nov 2030
Deployments: 28 March - 29 June 1954
Korea
Naval Service: Recommissioned
26 Jan 1951
Name
USS Laffey
Topic: Also known as
DD-724
Topic: Category
Allen M. Sumner-Class Destroyer
Naval Service: Struck
1 Mar 1975
Naval Service: Decommissioned
29 Mar 1975
Deployments: June 1944
Normandy, France
Deployments: October 1944
Philippines
Deployments: April-November 1970
Jordan
Deployments: April 1945
Okinawa
Deployments: 27 February - 22 June 1952
Korea
Other Facts
Sponsor
Beatrice F. Laffey
