Allied Warships

USS Hazelwood (DD 531)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 531
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	11 Apr 1942
Launched	20 Oct 1942
Commissioned	18 Jun 1943
End service	19 Mar 1965
History	Decommissioned 18 January 1946. Recommissioned 12 September 1951. Decommissioned 19 March 1965. Stricken 1 December 1974. Sold 14 April 1976 and broken up for scrap.

Commands listed for USS Hazelwood (DD 531)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Hunter Wood, Jr., USN	18 Jun 1943	1 Jan 1944
2	T/Cdr. Volckert Petrus Douw, USN	1 Jan 1944	29 Apr 1945 (+)
3	Lt jg Chester Martin Locke, USNR	29 Apr 1945	29 Apr 1945
4	Philip Reed, USN	29 Apr 1945	1 May 1945
5	Lt David Nelson Morey, Jr., USN	1 May 1945	20 Jun 1945
6	James Christopher Mathews, USN	20 Jun 1945	18 Jan 1946

7	Cdr. James Alexander Marks, USN	8 Jul 1953	1956 (1)

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Notable events involving Hazelwood include:

29 Apr 1945
Badly damaged by Kamikazes, 77 of the crew died and 35 were wounded; amongst those who died include the Commanding Officer Commander Volckert Douw and his relief Lt Cmdr Walter Andrew Hering.