the ship was launched and christened by mrs. orleck on may 12, 1945. it was commissioned on september 15, 1945, after the japanese had signed to the surrender the -- on the missouri in tokyo bay. it was in the water and getting getting shakedown while the pacific war was still going on. it is a gearing class, which gave it greater fuel capacity, reach, and so forth. during the korean war, they started what they called the train buster club, blowing up supply trains. it earned four battle stars during the korean war. the destroyers were smaller ships that would defend the larger ships. they would travel in the fleet around the aircraft carriers and battleships. one of their jobs is to defend the aircraft carriers and keep the enemy away from the larger ships, which were delivering the other weapons systems. over the years, the destroyers did a lot of different things. we forget sometimes about the past space missions where we had spacecraft splashing down in the ocean and a fleet would be in the area to pick up the astronaut, a helicopter would pick up