USS Truxtun (DD-229)
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USS Truxtun was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the third ship named for Thomas Truxtun.
USS Truxtun in the 1930s.
Left to right: Destroyer tender Whitney and destroyers Stewart, Pope, Pillsbury, John D. Ford, Truxtun, and Peary
Neutrality Patrol
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On September 3, 1939, the British and French declarations of war on Germany initiated the Battle of the Atlantic. The United States Navy Chief of Naval Operations established a combined air and ship p
USS Truxtun (DD-229)
…of war in September, Truxtun began enforcing the provisions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation of American neutrality by conducting neutrality patrols and escort duty off the Atlantic coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean. In late May and early June 1940, the warship made a voyage to…
U.S. Navy Vought SBU-1 dive bombers of scouting squadron VS-42 flying the Neutrality Patrol in 1940