High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Buck (DD-420), a World War II-era Sims-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy, was named after Quartermaster James Buck, a Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient. Buck was launched 22 May 1939 by the Philadelphia Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. Julius C. Townsend, wife of Rear Admiral Townsend, and commissioned 15 May 1940, Lieutenant Commander Horace C. Robison in command. After shakedown training, Buck joined the Atlantic Fleet for a brief period before augmenting the Pacific Fleet from February until June 1941. On 1 July, as part of Task Force (TF) 19, Buck got underway for NS Argentia, Newfoundland, where she joined a convoy carrying the US 1st Provisional Marine Brigade to Reykjavik, Iceland. After landing the Marines there on 7 July, the destroyer began convoy escort duty between Iceland and the United States.

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