Ingraham (DD 694) - Naval Cruise Book

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SHIPS HISTORY Three destroyers of the United States Navy have been named in honor of Captain Duncan Nathaniel ingraham. This, the third such ship, was built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearney, New Jersey. Commissioned on 10 lVlarch 1944, INGBAHAM was assigned to Task Force 38!58 in the Western Pacific. There she was to assume a mission she would hold for the next two decades, anti-submarine patrol and escort duty. In the closing days of 1944 her patrols brought INGBAHAIVI in the midst of battle. On 15 December she challenged and sank a Japanese cargo ship off the coast of Mindoro. Participating in the Lingayen Gulf landings in early January 1945, she conducted shore bombardment and screening patrols. Subsequently she rejoined the Task Force for co-ordinated strikes on lwo Jima and on the Japanese homeland. In the spring of 1945 the Western Pacific became even more a nightmare for U. S. Naval Forces than it had been during the earlier island hopping campaign years. The Japanese Empire, in vain attempts to salvage traces of victory, sent hundreds of its subjects to their deaths in Kamikaze raids. INGBAHAIVI enroute to the Okinawa Gunto Operations in company with five other ships, ln May 1945, encountered approximately fifty enemy planes. During the co rse of action two destroyers were hit and sunk, and scores of enemy planes were shot down. ING BAHANI was subject to a, oordinated attack by five Japanese planes, four of which she successfully shot down. The fifth went into a suicide dive and crashed her port side. With 15 men dead and 36 wounded, and only one gun operative, the ship limped into port, her main deck only a few feet above water. After a few months in the yards, INGBAHANI rejoined the Pacific Fleet in March 1946 and participated inthe atom bomb test at Bikini Atoll. ln the early 1950's INGBAHANI joined the Atlantic Fleet and has since deployed with the Atlantic, NATO, and Mideast Forces. ln the summer of 1962 she was assigned the coveted Mediterranean Cruise Qwhich took her to Naples, Barcelona, Menton, Palermo, Cannes, and Valencia. Since her return to the United States in September' of that year INGRAHAM has participated in the orbital flight of Sigma Seven and in the Cuban Blockade. She entered Boston drydock in June 1963 for minor repairs, then rejoined DESRON 24 in antisubmarine operations in the Atlantic. ' One of the few World War ll ships in continuous service, INGBAHAIVI still retains the pride, dedication, and readiness she had when first launched twenty years ago. I -F