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BY DAWNIS EARLY LIGHT , , I 'Hua MISSION or 'I'IIIf Iss STEINAKER 411118633 IS 'lu sl'vPcmR'r THE ug, SURFACF. I'II.I4I'FVIAI, WIIICH IS TO IfiNSURIi TIIIi FXPLOITATION OF THE SEAS IN ICJI5IE IiNSIi OID THE UNITED STATES. AI.I. ACTIVITIES ARE DIRECTED TOWARDS MAINTAINING OR INCREASING RIQLADINIZSS. AT THE SAME TIME, THF IIS. SURFACE FLEET IS A POWERI- UI, FORCE FOR PEACE BY GAINING FRIENDS FOR OUR COUNTRY AND INCREASING ITS PRESTIGE ABROAD. WITH THIS LONG-STANDING MIS- SION AN ESTABLISHED CONCEPT, USS STEINAKER CDD-8631 WAS BUILT BY THE BETHLEHEM STEEL COM- PANY IN STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK AND WAS COMMISSION ED ON 26 MAY 1945 AS A DD 692 SUMMER CLASS QLONG HULLJ DESTROYER. THE SHIP IS NAMED IN HONOR OF PFC DONALD BAUR STEINAKER, USMCR, WHO WAS KILLED AT THE AGE OF 20 DURING THE EARLY CAMPAIGN FOR GUADAL- CANAL. ON THE MORNING OF 8 OC- TOBER I942, PFC STEINAKER PARTICI- PATED IN A VIOLENT BATTLE AGAINST OVERWHELMING JAPA- NESE FORCES. HE REFUSED TO LEAVE HIS POSITION, AND DIED HEROICAL- LY DEFENDING IT. FOR THIS ACTION. PRIVATE STEINAKER WAS POSTHU- MOUSLY AWARDED THE NAVY CROSS. l...,v' inn... I---Us 1 ' i -iym 'rl 659121:-' ' 4, ' iz-I ., , I U' 1 2, -I ' ...ar
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