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■was present in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945 when the surrender was signed aboard the U.S. S.MISSOURI. After the surrender the DORTCH stayed on as part of the Occupation Force in Japan. On 5 December 1945 she was homeward bound and was placed out of commission in the Reserve Fleet at Charleston, S. C. on 19 July 1946. Following the outbreak of the Korean Action the DORTCH was again commissioned on 4 May 1951 at Charleston, S. C. After recommissioning she made shakedown and re- fresher training cruises and ■was overhauled in the Phila- delphia Navy Yard. She participated in Operation MAIN- BRACE, the first full scale naval operation of NATO, in the North Atlantic. Returning to her home port, New- port, Rhode Island, for the Christmas Holidays 1952, she was off again in February 1953 on Operation SPRING- BOARD in the Carribbean. Provisioned and made ready for sea, the U.S.S. DORTCH sailed from Newport, Rhode Island on 27 April 1953 as part of Destroyer Division 301, enroute to Korea. The following pages depict that voyage.
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Brief History of the U.S.S. DORTCH (DD-670) The U.S.S. DORTCH (DD-670) is a 2100 ton destroyer of the Fletcher Class. She was christened by Miss Mary Clare Dortch, daughter of the late Captain Isaac Foote DORTCH for whom the ship was named, on 20 June 1943, at Kearny, New Jersey. Built in 158 days, one of the shortest construction pe- riods on record, she was commissioned on 7 August 1943. Outfitted, provisioned and the crew trained, she sailed on 3 December 1943 to join fast carrier task forces in the Pa- cific. She was part of the mighty military wave that annihilated the Japanese in the Pacific and as her reward
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