USS Kidd DD-661: From WWII and Korea to Museum Ship
USS Kidd DD-661: From WWII and Korea to Museum Ship USS Kidd (DD-661) is the only Fletcher-class destroyer preserved in WWII configuration. DD-661 was named for RAdm. Isaac C. With 175 total ships…
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USS Kidd DD-661: From WWII and Korea to Museum Ship
USS Kidd (DD-661) is the only Fletcher-class destroyer preserved in WWII configuration. DD-661 was named for RAdm. Isaac C. With 175 total ships launched, the Fletchers were the most numerous and most impactful class of destroyers in the US Navy during the Second World War.
USS Kidd saw action in both the Atlantic and in the Pacific. Kidd, who was killed onboard the Battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor. In April 1945, the ship was seriously damaged by a Kamikaze strike.
Kidd was recommissioned during the Korean War, and finally decommissioned for the final time in 1964. The interior and exterior of the ship have been painstakingly restored and preserved in Baton Rouge by the Louisiana Naval War Memorial Commission. This work uses color photography to provide readers an illustrated tour of the ship, above and below