USS Halford (DD-480), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Lieutenant William Halford (1841–1919), a recipient of the Medal of Honor.
USS Halford (DD-480) after removal of the catapult, 1943
Halford with the catapult and an OS2U scout plane, July 1943.
View of Halford´s forward gun turrets.
The Fletcher class was 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 Porter and Somers classes. Some went on to serve during the Korean War and into the Vietnam War.
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