Bethlehem Shipbuilding San Pedro was a major shipbuilding company on Terminal Island in San Pedro, California, owned by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation. To support the World War II demand for ships
Bethlehem Shipbuilding San Pedro yard in 1944
Fletcher-class destroyer, (DD-792) Callaghan sunk by kamikazes off Okinawa on July 28, 1945
Fletcher-class destroyer
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The Fletcher class is a class of destroyers built by the United States during World War II. The class was designed in 1939 as a result of dissatisfaction with the earlier destroyer leader types of the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding San Pedro
…Shipbuilding San Pedro destroyers built from 1942 to 1945: 26 of 415 destroyers 4 of 30 Benson-class Kendrick (DD-612) ... McLanahan (DD-615) 10 of 175 Fletcher-class Boyd (DD-544) ... Cowell (DD-547) Hopewell (DD-681), Porterfield (DD-682) Callaghan (DD-792) ... USS Preston (DD-795) 5 of 58 Allen M. Sumner-class…
USS Erben underway in the 1950s
Technical drawing of the Fletcher-class destroyer
Launch of Fletcher and Radford, 3 May 1942
127 mm MK 30 gun from a Fletcher-class destroyer (1942) Bundeswehr Military History Museum, Dresden