USS Brush
USS ''Brush'' (DD-745), an , is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Charles Brush, an American inventor and philanthropist. Construction and career ''Brush'' (DD-745) was Ship naming and launching, launched on 28 December 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Island, New York; sponsored by Miss Virginia Perkins, great-granddaughter of Charles Brush; and Ship commissioning, commissioned on 17 April 1944. Service in the United States Navy World War II On 30 August 1944 ''Brush'' arrived at Pearl Harbor and after training got underway for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands on 28 September. From Eniwetok she escorted convoys to Ulithi and the Palau Islands. Serving with the United States Fifth Fleet, 5th and United States Third Fleet, 3rd Fleets she took part in the Leyte operation (5 November – 16 December 1944); Luzon-Formosa-China coast-Nansei Shoto strikes (3–22 January 1945); invasion of Iwo Jima and the supporting 5th Fleet raids (15 February – 5 March), an ...
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USS Brush (DD-745) Underway On 22 May 1944 (80-G-237963)
USS ''Brush'' (DD-745), an , is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Charles Brush, an American inventor and philanthropist. Construction and career ''Brush'' (DD-745) was Ship naming and launching, launched on 28 December 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Island, New York; sponsored by Miss Virginia Perkins, great-granddaughter of Charles Brush; and Ship commissioning, commissioned on 17 April 1944. Service in the United States Navy World War II On 30 August 1944 ''Brush'' arrived at Pearl Harbor and after training got underway for Eniwetok, Marshall Islands on 28 September. From Eniwetok she escorted convoys to Ulithi and the Palau Islands. Serving with the United States Fifth Fleet, 5th and United States Third Fleet, 3rd Fleets she took part in the Leyte operation (5 November – 16 December 1944); Luzon-Formosa-China coast-Nansei Shoto strikes (3–22 January 1945); invasion of Iwo Jima and the supporting 5th Fleet raids (15 February – 5 March), an ...
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