Allied Warships

USS O"Bannon (DD 450)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 450
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered	1 Jul 1940
Laid down	3 Mar 1941
Launched	19 Feb 1942
Commissioned	26 Jun 1942
End service	30 Jan 1970
History	Decommissioned 21 May 1946. Reclassified as DDE-445 on 26 March 1949. Recommissioned 19 February 1951. Reclassified back to DD-445 on 30 June 1962. Decommissioned and Stricken 30 January 1970. Sold 6 June 1970 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS O"Bannon (DD 450)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Edwin Richard Wilkinson, USN	26 Jun 1942	19 Jan 1943
2	T/Cdr. Donald John MacDonald, USN	19 Jan 1943	Mar 1944
3	Cmdr Robert William Smith, USN	Mar 1944	23 Dec 1944
4	James Arthur Pridmore, USN	23 Dec 1944	21 May 1946

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Notable events involving O"Bannon include:

12 Aug 1942
USS R-12 (Lt. E.E. Shelby, USN) participated in A/S exercises of Guantanamo Bay together with USS Fletcher (Lt.Cdr. W.M. Cole, USN) and with USS O’Bannon (Cdr. E.R. Wilkinson, USN).