Allied Warships

USS Brush (DD 745)

Destroyer of the Allen M. Sumner class

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Allen M. Sumner
Pennant	DD 745
Built by	Bethlehem Steel Corp. (Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.)
Ordered	7 Aug 1942
Laid down	30 Jul 1943
Launched	28 Dec 1943
Commissioned	17 Apr 1944
End service	27 Oct 1969
History	Decommissioned and stricken 27 October 1969. Transferred to Taiwan 9 December 1969 being renamed Hsiang Yang. Hsiang Yang was stricken in 1984.

Commands listed for USS Brush (DD 745)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Cdr. John Ellis Edwards, USN	17 Apr 1944	6 May 1945
2	T/Cdr. John Victor Smith, USN	6 May 1945	Sep 1946

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Notable events involving Brush include:

30 Aug 1944
USS Brush arrived at Pearl Harbor.

20 Sep 1944
USS Brush departed from Pearl Harbor bound for Eniwetok.

17 Dec 1944
USS Iowa (Capt. J.L. Holloway, Jr., USN), topped off two of the destroyers of the Task Group, USS Brush (Cdr. J.E. Edwards, USN) and USS Lewis Hancock (Cdr. W.M. Searles, USN), with fuel.

13 Jun 1945
USS Brush arrived at Leyte.

13 Jun 1945
USS Brush departed from Leyte to join the fleet again.

14 Sep 1945
USS Brush arrived at Tokyo Bay.