Allied Warships

USS Wadleigh (DD 689)

Destroyer of the Fletcher class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Fletcher
Pennant	DD 689
Built by	Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine, U.S.A.)
Ordered	15 Jul 1942
Laid down	5 Apr 1943
Launched	7 Aug 1943
Commissioned	19 Nov 1943
End service	28 Jun 1962
History	Decommissioned in January 1947. Recommissioned 3 October 1951. Decommissioned 28 June 1962. Transferred to Chile 26 July 1972 being renamed Blanco Encalada. Blanco Elcalada was stricken and scraped in 1983.

Commands listed for USS Wadleigh (DD 689)

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Walter Coulter Winn, USN	19 Oct 1943	16 Feb 1945
2	T/Cdr. Robert Cameron Morton, USN	16 Feb 1945	20 Jun 1946

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Notable events involving Wadleigh include:

13 Dec 1943
Around 1715 hours USS Halsey Powell (Cdr. W.T. McGarry, USN), USS Marshall (Cdr. J.D. McKinney, USN), USS Wadleigh (Cdr. W.C. Winn, USN) took over the escort of USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. McCrea, USN) from USS Hall (Cdr. J.F. Delaney, Jr., USN), USS Halligan (Cdr. C.E. Cortner, USN) and USS Macomb (Cdr. J.C. South, USN) which were then detached.

3 Jul 1945
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN) topped off two of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS McNair (Cdr. B.P. Ross, USN) and USS Wadleigh (Cdr. R.C. Morton, USN), with fuel.