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Originally Posted by ItemCo16527  The USS Laffey (DD-724). She is the legendary "ship that would not die", which was pounded by bombs and kamikazes off of Okinawa in 1945. Despite being crippled and nearly sunk by the Japanese, she would survive and go on to serve for nearly 30 more years. |
USS Laffey as in the second DD to bear the name during the war? The first one, If I remember well, lays at Ironbottom Sound, sunk during the early engagements in the Slot.