Borie (DD 704) - Naval Cruise Book

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HIP ATE C lf va? 5' go? V155 A PICTURE STORY .s. S. 130121153 QDD 7045 R DURING EUROPEAN CRUISE, 1952-53 GREENOCK , Scotland SALONIKA. Greece DARTMOUTH, England GIBRALTAR, B. C. C. NAPLES, Italy GENOA, Italy AUG-USTA BAY, Sicily MARSEILLE, France TRIESTE. F. T. T. CANNES, France TRIESTE, F. T. T. CANNES, France , TOULON, France VENICE, Italy AUGUSTA BAY, Sicily TRIESTE, F. T. T. IZMIR, Turkey GIBRALTAR, B. C. C. A private edition printed and published for thc' Ship by David Whddinglon Publications Via San Nicola 22, Trieste , 12 f1'T ii'-

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HISTORY OF THE U. S. S. BORIE DD 70-4j The United States Ship BORIE QDD. 704j, second destroyer to bear the name, was built in Kearny, New jersey and commissioned in the New York Navy Yard on 21 September 1944. After shakedown she sailed for San Diego via the Canal Zone, and thence to Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok and Saipan, where she joined Task Group 94.9 in preparation for the shore bombardment of Iwo Jima. ' After this brief action, during which the iirst of many enemy planes was downed by the BORIE's five-inch batteries, she joined the famed Task Force 58 and participated in the first strike by a fast carrier task force against the Japanese home islands. After several more engagements within sight of Japan including the first surface foray into Tokyo Bay since the beginning of the war, the BORIE was struck by the last successful kamikaze plane, during the final bombardment of Honshu and Kyushu, in August 1945. Casualties were extremely heavy, yet four more suicide pilots were downed consequently. After emergency repairs at Saipan the BORIE returned to the States in February 1946 for ten months of rest, and then she saw service as a Des-Lant Gunnery School Ship and as a Caribbean area training ship, for sixteen months. In September of 1949 the BOHIE joined the U. S. SIXTH Fleet in European waters, and was then detached for a pleasant good will tour of the British Isles and Scandinavia which included a seldom-taken trip north through the 'Inner Leads' and across the Arctic Circle to Narvik. Stopping at many of the picturesque Mediterranean ports en route, the BORIE arrived back in Norfolk in late January 1950. A year after leaving for the Mediterranean the BORIE once more headed for the Far East - this time to Korea as a unit of the United Nations Blockading and Patrol Force. BORIE alone supported the landing of the Army's SEVENTH Division at Iwon, Korea, and her secondary activities during this tour were many and diversified. In Korea the BORIE continued the splendid record commenced upon her arrival in the Pacific in 1945, and it can be said that DD 704 carried onthe fighting tradition established by her predecessor, DD 215, who battled to a victorious death by rarnming a Nazi U-Boat in the North Atlantic in 1943. In the summer of 1950, after having returned once more to Norfolk, the BORIE entered the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for a modernizing and much-needed overhaul. Since leaving the yards BORIE has been employed in local operations in the Norfolk-Cape Hatteras area and she received refresher training Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In August of 1952, with a new but well-trained crew, BORIE once more got underway for the Mediterranean, where she is presently operating under ComDesDiv 22 as a unit of the powerful U. S. SIXTH Fleet.