Allied Warships

USS Wallace L. Lind (DD 703)

Destroyer of the Allen M. Sumner class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassAllen M. Sumner 
PennantDD 703 
Built byFederal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered7 Aug 1942 
Laid down14 Feb 1944 
Launched14 Jun 1944 
Commissioned8 Sep 1944 
End service4 Dec 1973 
History

Decommissioned and stricken 4 December 1973.
Transferred to South Korea 4 December 1973 being renamed Dae Gu.
Dae Gu was stricken in 1994 and broken up for scrap.

 

Commands listed for USS Wallace L. Lind (DD 703)

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1T/Cdr. George DeMetropolis, USN8 Sep 1944Jul 1946

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Notable events involving Wallace L. Lind include:


In the summer of 1947, my uncle, CDR Will Park Starnes was captain of the LIND. At that time, it was home ported in New Orleans. I visited the ship there as a small boy. (1)

5 Jun 1943
Around 2000B/5, the destroyers HMCS Iroquois (Cdr. W.B.L. Holms, RCN) and ORP Orkan (Kmdr.por. (Cdr.) S. Hryniewiecki) departed Falmouth escorting the landing ship HMS Prins Albert (Lt.Cdr. H.B. Peate, RNR) part of her way to Gibraltar.

Around 2300B/6, HMCS Iroquois and ORP Orkan parted company to proceed to provide cover for a convoy of landing craft made op of HMS LCI(L)-100, HMS LCI(L)-164, HMS LCI(L)-165, HMS LCI(L)-166, HMS LCI(L)-169, HMS LCI(L)-171, HMS LCI(L)-172, HMS LCI(L)-178, HMS LCI(L)-179, HMS LCI(L)-181, HMS LCI(L)-241 and HMS LCI(L)-245 en-route to Gibraltar escorted by the corvette HMS Columbine (T/A/Lt.Cdr. W.J. Griffiths, RNR). These ships were however not seen in the bad visibility.

Around 2300B/7, HMCS Iroquois and ORP Orkan turned northwards to proceed to Plymouth where they arrived around 1320B/9. (2)

14 Nov 1944
USS Wallace L. Lind departed from Norfolk bound for the Pacific.

27 Nov 1944
USS Wallace L. Lind transits the Panama Canal.

13 Dec 1944
USS Wallace L. Lind arrived at Pearl Harbor.

23 Dec 1944
USS Wallace L. Lind departed from Pearl Harbor bound for Ulithi.

5 Jan 1945
USS Wallace L. Lind made rendezvous with TF 38 to support the landings on Luzon.

26 Jan 1945
USS Wallace L. Lind arrived at Ulithi.

10 Feb 1945
USS Wallace L. Lind departed from Ulithi with TF 58.

4 Mar 1945
USS Wallace L. Lind returns to Ulithi.

14 Mar 1945
USS Wallace L. Lind departed from Ulithi to support the landings on Okinawa.

1 Jun 1945
USS Wallace L. Lind arrived at San Pedro Bay, Philippines.

1 Jul 1945
USS Wallace L. Lind departed from San Pedro Bay, Philippines with TG 38.3 to operate of mainland Japan.

1 Sep 1945
USS Wallace L. Lind enters Tokyo Bay.

Media links


Destroyers of World War Two
Whitley, M. J.


U.S. Destroyers
Friedman, Norman


United States Destroyer Operations In World War II.
Roscoe, Theodore

Sources

  1. Personal communication
  2. ADM 199/2266 + File RG24-D-2 / Vol. 7418 (Library and Archives Canada)

ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.


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