Benner (DD 807) - Naval Cruise Book

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HIP' HISTCRY The USS BENNER QDD-8075 was built by Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine, launched on 20 November 1944 and commissioned on 13 February 1945. She was named after Second Lieutenant Stanley G. BENNER , USMCR, who won the Silver Star medal posthumously for displaying courageous de- termination is leading his platoon against greatly superior enemy forces at Point Lunga, Guadalcanal, and Solomon Islands. Upon commissioning, the ship was converted from a destroyer to a Radar Picket Destroyer whose primary job is to steam ahead of a Task Force and warn the main body of the approaching enemy. This was accomplished during the next several months, and on 8 June 1945 BENNER sailed through the Panama Canal for duty with the U.S. Pacific Fleet. On 26 July 1945 she joined Task Group 38.3 then operating in the home waters of the Japanese Empire. For the remainder of the war, BENNER per- formed duties of screening fast carriers and delivering mail and freight. On one of the strike days , 9 August 1945, the ship received her Baptism by Kamikaze . During that afternoon the Task Force fought off numerous savage suicide attacks. Nearby ships were hit, but BENNER, putting up an effective screen of anti-aircraft fire, escaped damage. BENNER continued her activities until she anchored in Tokyo Bay at the close of the war in September 1945. From that time until 1949, BENNER remained a ship of the Pacific Fleet. In 1949 BENNER changed her home port to Newport, Rhode Island and became a member of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. During the next seven years, she made three cruises to the Mediterranean, one to the Arctic, and one to South America, In 1956 BENNER returned to the Pacific Fleet, being homeported in Long Beach as a member of Destroyer Squadron NINE, Since then the ship has participated in training exercises off the California Coast and made six cruises to the Far East. During these cruises, BENNER operates with the powerful Seventh Fleet, the Nation's deployed striking force and visits many interesting countries, including Hawaii, Hong Kong , Philippine Islands , Japan, Okinawa, and other Far East Ports. Following a year of intensive fleet operations in the Eastern Pacific,including a cold weather trip to Alaska, BENNER entered the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in June 1962 for a Fleet Rehabilitation and Moderization overhaul fFRAM MK ID. UP011 completion BENNER was transferred t0 Destroyer Squadron TWENTY-THREE, the famed Little Beaver Squadron, formerly commanded by Arleigh A. BURKE. Upon completion of FRAM MK II, OH 15 February 1963, BENNER departed Long Beach Naval Shipyard for two months of refresher training, After refresher training BENNER joined CARDIV NINETEEN with DESVID 232 and commenced extensive ASW training in order to be prepared for the forthcoming WESTPAC deployment.