USS Frazier
USS ''Frazier'' (DD-607) was a Benson class destroyer, ''Benson''-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. Namesake Daniel Frazier was born James North in Dorchester County, Maryland, and joined the United States Navy in 1802. Serving as a quartermaster aboard the USS Enterprise (1799), USS ''Enterprise'' in the Mediterranean Sea during the First Barbary War, he took part in Stephen Decatur's renowned foray into Tripoli, Libya, Tripoli harbor to destroy the captured and was again with Decatur in the attack on Tripoli on 3 August 1804. After boarding a Tripolitan gunboat, Decatur was locked in hand-to-hand combat with its commander. Another enemy sailor raised his sword against Decatur, but the blow was intercepted by Frazier, who suffered a head wound. Though this act of bravery has historically also been attributed to Frazier's shipmate Reuben James, modern scholars agree that Frazier was Decatur's savior. Frazier suffered severe wounds during the battle, ...
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