USS Harwood (DD 861)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Gearing
Pennant	DD 861
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (San Pedro, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	14 Jun 1943
Laid down	29 Oct 1944
Launched	22 May 1945
Commissioned	8 Sep 1945
End service
History	Decommissioned at an unknown date. Transferred to Turkey 17 December 1971 being renamed Kocatepe. Kocatepe was sunk in error by Turkish aircraft on 22 July 1974 during Turkish landings on Cyprus. The Turkish airforce thought that Kocatepe, along with two other sister ships, Andapete & Tiznatepe were Greek ships so they bombed them. Kocatepe was sunk in ten minutes.

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Reid Puryear Fiala, USN	29 Sep 1945	Sep 1946

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