USS Overton (DD 239)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Clemson
Pennant	DD 239
Built by	New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	30 Oct 1918
Launched	10 Jul 1920
Commissioned	30 Jul 1920
End service	28 Jul 1945
History	Decommissioned 3 February 1931 in 1932 she was placed in rotating reserve commission, and served in that capacity until again decommissioned, in reserve on 20 November 1937 Recommissioned 26 September 1939 Reclassified as APD-23 on 23 August 1943 Decommissioned 28 July 1945 Stricken 13 August 1945 Sold 30 November 1945 and broken up for scrap.

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	Lt.Cdr. Daniel Newman Cone, Jr., USN	26 Sep 1939	22 Jun 1940
2	Lt. Thomas Carson Phifer, USN	22 Jun 1940	30 Aug 1940
3	Lt.Cdr. Hubert Winthrop Chanler, USN	30 Aug 1940	3 Jan 1941
4	Lt. Thomas Carson Phifer, USN	3 Jan 1941	19 Jan 1941
5	Lt.Cdr. Joseph Barnaby Stefanac, USN	19 Jan 1941	18 May 1942 (1)
6	T/Lt.Cdr. Lynne Cline Quiggle, USN	18 May 1942	6 Dec 1942 (1)
7	T/Cdr. Roland Omer Lucier, USN	6 Dec 1942	11 Aug 1943
8	William James Riley, Jr., USNR	11 Aug 1943	9 Jan 1944
9	Lt.Cdr. Desmond Kelly O'Conner, USNR	9 Jan 1944	18 Jan 1945
10	Lt.Cdr. John Paul Bracken, USNR	18 Jan 1945	23 May 1945
11	Walter Sean Sullivan, Jr., USNR	23 May 1945	28 Jul 1945

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