USS ''Duffy'' (DE-27) was an that served in the Pacific during

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Namesake

Charles John Duffy was born 31 December 1919 in

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. He enlisted in the

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on 25 April 1941 and was appointed an aviation cadet on 13 November 1941. Flying a carrier aircraft.

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Duffy was killed in action during the

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, French Morocco, 8 November 1942 during the

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Construction and commissioning

''Duffy'' was launched from the

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on 16 April 1943, and was originally intended for transfer to the

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. Instead, she was commissioned by the U.S. Navy on 5 August 1943.

Service history

''Duffy'' was mainly involved in escorting supply ships and as part of larger carrier groups, taking credit for downing a twin-engine Japanese "Betty" bomber in December 1944 at

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. On 29 December, ''Duffy'' fired a shore bombardment on

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while covering air strikes. ''Duffy'' continued to bombard and wage psychological warfare on various bypassed islands, and on 14 June 1945, she took prisoner seven men of the cutoff garrison on Mille Atoll. At the end of the war, ''Duffy'' sailed back to

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, where she arrived on 26 July 1945. She was decommissioned there on 9 November 1945 and sold for scrap on 16 June 1947.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Duffy (De-27)) Evarts-class destroyer escorts World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States Ships built in Vallejo, California 1943 ships