USS Kimberly (DD 521)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 521
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.)
Ordered	9 Sep 1940
Laid down	22 May 1942
Launched	4 Feb 1943
Commissioned	22 May 1943
End service	16 Jan 1954
History	Decommissioned 5 February 1947. Recommissioned 8 February 1951. Decommissioned 16 January 1954. Transferred to Taiwan on 1 June 1967 being renamed An Yang. An Yang was stricken on 16 August 1999. Sunk on 14 October 2003 as a torpedo target by the submarine Hai Lung (SS-793).

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	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Harry W. Smith, USN	22 May 1943	25 Oct 1944
2	T/Cdr. James Dickson Whitfield, Jr., USN	25 Oct 1944	10 Jan 1946

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