Allied Warships

USS Heermann (DD 532)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 532
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	8 May 1942
Launched	5 Dec 1942
Commissioned	6 Jul 1943
End service	20 Dec 1957
History	Decommissioned 12 June 1946. Recommissioned 12 September 1951. Decommissioned 20 December 1957. Stricken 1 September 1975. Transferred to Argentina 14 August 1961 being renamed Almirante Brown. Almirante Brown was stricken and scrapped in 1982.

Commands listed for USS Heermann (DD 532)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. Dwight Merle Agnew, USN	6 Jul 1943	May 1944
2	T/Cdr. Amos Townsend Hathaway, USN	May 1944	19 Aug 1945
3	William King Yarnell, USN	19 Aug 1945	12 Jun 1946

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Notable events involving Heermann include:

9 May 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off two of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Heerman (Cdr. A.T. Hathaway, USN) and USS McCord (Cdr. F.D. Michael, USN), with fuel.

28 May 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off two of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Mertz (Cdr. W.S. Maddox, USN) and USS Heerman (Cdr. A.T. Hathaway, USN), with fuel.

31 May 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off one of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Heerman (Cdr. A.T. Hathaway, USN), with fuel.

4 Jun 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off two of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Heerman (Cdr. A.T. Hathaway, USN) and USS USS Uhlmann (Cdr. S.C. Small, USN), with fuel.

7 Jun 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off two of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Heerman (Cdr. A.T. Hathaway, USN) and USS McCord (Cdr. F.D. Michael, USN), with fuel.