USS Dunlap (DD 384): Mahan Class Destroyer, United States Navy, World War II, Brigadier General

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dunlap was launched 18 April 1936 by United Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corporation, New York, New York; sponsored by Mrs. Robert H. Dunlap, widow of Brigadier General Dunlap; and commissioned 12 June 1937, Commander A. E. Schrader in command. Dunlap operated along the east coast on training duty, and in June 1938 served as escort at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the MS Kungsholm, carrying the Crown Prince of Sweden. On 1 September she got underway for the west coast; except for a cruise to the Caribbean and east coast for a fleet problem and overhaul in the first 6 months of 1939, Dunlap served along the west coast until 2 April 1940 when she sailed for Pearl Harbor, her new home port.

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