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USS EPPERSON (DD 719) EPPERSON (DD 719) is a Gearing Class Destroyer whose primary missions are anti-air warfare. She measures 106 feet from waterline to mast tip, is 391 feet long, 40 feet wide at her beam and has a speed in excess of 30 knots. She has a crew of approximately 18 officers and 260 enlisted men. The construction of EPPERSON was originally approved during World War II. Her keel was laid in June 1945 at the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Kearney, New Jer- sey. Construction was stopped at the end of World War II and the uncompleted hull was towed to Boston Naval Shipyard where it remained until she was completed by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, and commissioned on 19 March 1949. The ship is named after Private First Class Harold Glen EPPERSON, USMC, who won with his valor and his life the Nation ' s highest decoration, the Congressional Medal of Honor, on Saipan during World War II. Extensive sea trials were conducted in the Key West, Florida area September 1950 at which time EPPERSON was transferred to Pearl Harbor. In 1951 and 1952 she saw service with the United Nations Forces in Korea and in 1954 with the U.S. Seventh Fleet Formosa Straits Patrol. Routine deployments to the Western Pacific with anti-submarine groups have been made by EPPERSON since 1955. She participated in the 1958 High Altitude Nuclear Tests at Johnson Island; and in 1962 she was stationed in the mid-pacific as a recovery vessel for Colonel John Glenn ' s historic flight. In October of the same year she was part of the recovery force for astronaut Walter Schirra ' s successful six orbit flight, and later in 1963 for the re- covery of astronaut Gordon Cooper. Since 1965, EPPERSON has completed seven deployments to the Western Pacific. During these operations with the U.S. Seventh Fleet she has participated in extensive gunfire support missions in support of U.S. Forces in South Vietnam, and as a unit of Operation Sea Dragon, EPPERSON made numerous raids against enemy installations along the coast of North Viet- nam. The successful completion of these gunfire missions, along with search and rescue mis- sions, and support of Attack Carrier Forces has indeed kept EPPERSON, a unit of Destroyer Squadron Eleven, On The Way .
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