| Important Dates | ||
| Date | Activity | Source |
| 19 Nov 1941 | Laid down/Keel Date, Staten Island, Bethlehem Shipping Corporation First Commanding Officer: Cdr. J.N. Opie, III |
1, 2 |
| 7 July 1942 | Launched | 1 |
| 14 Nov 1942 | Commissioned | 1 |
| 1943 | Aleutians Operation | 4 |
| 6 July - 15 August 1943 |
Re-Taking of Kiska Operation Cottage Task Group 16.21 ---------------------------- Short Description of Operation Cottage Softening up Kiska |
8 |
| 1943-4 | Bismarck Archipelago Operation | 4 |
| 26 December 1943 |
Bombardment of New Britain ---------------------------- Bismarck Archipelago Overview |
8, 10 |
| 1944 | Eastern New Guinea Operations | 4 |
| 29 Feb 1944 - 18 May 1944 |
Admiralty Islands Campaign (New Guinea) Task Group 74 Rear Admiral R.S. Berkey ---------------------------- Admiralty Islands campaign |
8 |
| 15 Sep 1944 |
Destroyers to Morotai Task Group 77.2 Rear Admiral R.S. Berkey ---------------------------- USS Fletcher DD-445 Morotai Action Report |
8 |
| 1944 | Hollandia Operation | 4 |
| 22 April 1944 |
Hollandia Landings Operation Reckless Task Group 77.3 ---------------------------- Landings from USS Swanson |
8 |
| 1944 | Western New Guinea Operations | 4 |
| ~ May/June 1944 |
BIAK ISLAND INVASION Task Force 77 ---------------------------- Invasion from USS Swanson |
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| 20 Oct 1944 |
Leyte Operation Task Force 77 DesRon 24 ---------------------------- After Action Report USN THE LAST GUNFIGHT, The Battle of Surigao Strait 1944 |
8, 9 |
| 28 February and 5 March |
Iwo Jima Operation ---------------------------- Iwo Jima Operation from Naval Heritage |
8 |
| 1945 | Okinawa Gunto Operation | 4 |
| 13 May 1945 |
Battle of Okinawa Operation Iceburg Commanding Officer: Lt Comdr. A.R. McFarland Hit by kamikaze, Okinawa - 41 killed; 32 wounded ---------------------------- Battle of Okinawa from Wikipedia Damage to Bache from National Association of Destroyer Veterans |
5, 8 |
| 25 May 1945 | left Okinawa in convoy OKS-5 | 5 |
| 13 Jul 1945 | arrived NY Navy Yard | 5 |
| 27 Oct 1945 | Participant Presidential Fleet Review, NY Pier | 1 |
| 4 Feb 1946 | placed in reserve, Charleston, SC | 5 |
| 17 Jan 1947 | decommission, laid up in Charleston Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet | 5 |
| 21 June 1950 | towed to Boston Naval Shipyard | 5 |
| 1 Oct 1951 | Recommissioned | 1 |
| 2 Jan 1951 | Reclassified DDE-470 | 1 |
| 1954 | assisted in evaluation of the first Nuclear Submarine | 5 |
| Fall 1957 |
Destroyer Division 282 NATO Manuevers, Europe |
13 |
| Mar 1958 | assigned to Task Group ALFA, experimental group tasked with the development and teaching of antisubmarine defense techniques and procedures | 5 |
| 1959 | Task Group ALFA anti-submarine exercises in Atlantic | 1 |
| 19 Dec 1960 | Recovery ship for Mercury-Restone 1-A (unmanned NASA mission) | 6, 7 |
| 13 Apr 1961 - 26 Apr 1961 |
Cuba: Bay of Pigs ---------------------------- Bay of Pigs from Wikipedia |
3 |
| 29 Jun 1962 - 11 Aug 1962 |
Cuba: Cuban Missile Crisis ---------------------------- Missile Crisis from National Security Archive Missile Crisis from Dept of the Navy |
3 |
| 30 June 1962 | Reverted to DD-470 | 1 |
| 25 Oct 1962 - 05 Nov 1962 |
Cuban Missile Blockade HUK Group Alfa (compased of carrier, USS Randolf, and destroyers, USS Bache, Beale, Cony, Eaton & Murray) ---------------------------- Blockade from Dept of Navy |
3, 11, 12 |
| 14 May 1965 - 15 May 1965 |
Dominican Republic Intervention
---------------------------- Intervention from Wikipedia |
3 |
| 1965-66 | Vietnam | 3 |
| 6 Feb 1968 | Wrecked, Rhode Island, Greece | 1 |
| 26 Feb 1968 | decommissioned | 5 |
| 1 March 1968 | name struck from Navy list | 1 |
| Sources | ||
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| 1 | www.navsource.org/archives/05/470.htm | |
| 2 | http://www.hullnumber.com/DD-470 | |
| 3 | http://www.goatlocker.org/resources/nav/1650.pdf | |
| 4 | http://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/desron24/ | |
| 5 | http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b1/bache-ii.htm | |
| 6 | http://recovery_ships.rossjsmith.com/recovery-mercury/mr_1a_cachets.htm | |
| 7 | Don Blair, Splashdown: NASA and the Navy (available at Amazon) | |
| 8 | see also US Destroyer Operations in WWII by Theodore Roscoe | |
| 9 | The Last Epic Naval Battle: Voices from Leyte Gulf by David Sears | |
| 10 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bache_(DD-470) | |
| 11 | October Fury by Peter Huchthausen | |
| 12 | Cuba 1962-62, The Closet to Nuclear War to Date | |
| 13 | Rear Admiral Roger Warde Paine, Jr. | |
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