Allied Warships

USS Jouett (DD 396)

Destroyer of the Somers class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Somers
Pennant	DD 396
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	26 Mar 1936
Launched	24 Sep 1938
Commissioned	25 Jan 1939
End service	1 Nov 1945
History	Decommissioned 1 November 1945. Stricken 28 November 1945. Sold and broken up for scrap in 1946.

Commands listed for USS Jouett (DD 396)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Guy Wheeler Clark, USN	25 Jan 1939	3 Nov 1941
2	Cdr. James Conner Pollock, USN	3 Nov 1941	15 Dec 1942 (1)
3	T/Cdr. Fondville Lee Tedder, USN	15 Dec 1942	2 Jul 1943
4	T/Cdr. John Calhoun Parham, Jr., USN	2 Jul 1943	13 Jan 1945
5	Grant Smith Heston, USN	13 Jan 1945	1 Nov 1945

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Notable events involving Jouett include:

17 May 1943
German U-boat U-128 was sunk in the South Atlantic south of Pernambuco, in approximate position 10°00'S, 35°35'W, by gunfire from the US destroyers USS Moffett and USS Jouett, and depth charges from two Mariner aircraft (Sqdn VP-74/P-6/P-5).