"
The Ship That Would Not Die"
Timeline
Awards: WWII Victory Medal
Awards: Meritorious Unit Commendation
Awards: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Service Medal
4 Battle Stars
Awards: National Defense Service Medal (1st Award)
Awards: American Campaign Service Medal
Mar 8, 1944
Awards: Presidential Unit Citation
Okinawa
Awards: European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
1 Battle Star
Awards: Navy Battle "E" Ribbon
date unknown
Awards: Korea Service Medal
2 Battle Stars
Awards: UN Service Medal
Korea
Awards: Philippine Liberation Medal
2 Bronze Stars
Awards: Naval Reserve Sea Service Ribbon
date unknown
Awards: Philippine Presidential Unit Citation
Awards: Philippine Independence Medal
Jul 4, 1946
Awards: ROK Presidential Unit Citation
Mar 1952
Awards: National Defense Service Medal (2nd Award)
Battle Honors (WWII): Consolidation of the Southern Philippines
Jul 28, 2020
Battle Honors (WWII): Leyte Operation
Dec 10, 2016
Battle Honors (WWII): Luzon Operation
Battle Honors (WWII): Invasion of Normandy
Jun 6, 2025
Battle Honors (WWII): Okinawa Gunto Operation
Jun 17, 2030
Naval Service: Commissioned
Feb 8, 1944
Naval Service: Decommissioned to Reserve
Jun 30, 1947
Naval Service: Launched
Nov 21, 1943
Naval Service: Laid Down
Jun 28, 1943
Builder: Bath Iron Works
Bath, ME
Deployments: 9-16 March 1954
Korea
Battle Honors (Korea): Second Korean Winter
Battle Honors (Korea): Korean Defense, Summer-Fall 1952
Nov 1, 2030
Deployments: 28 March - 29 June 1954
Korea
Naval Service: Recommissioned
Jan 26, 1951
Name
USS Laffey
Topic: Also known as
DD-724
Topic: Category
Allen M. Sumner-Class Destroyer
Naval Service: Struck
Mar 1, 1975
Naval Service: Decommissioned
Mar 29, 1975
Deployments: June 1944
Normandy, France
Deployments: October 1944
Philippines
Deployments: April-November 1970
Jordan
Deployments: April 1945
Okinawa
Deployments: 27 February - 22 June 1952
Korea
Other Facts
Sponsor
Beatrice F. Laffey
