High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Drexler (DD-741), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, was named for Ensign Henry Clay Drexler, a Medal of Honor recipient. The Drexler was launched 3 September 1944 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. L. A. Drexler, mother of Ensign Drexler; and commissioned 14 November 1944, Commander R. L. Wilson in command. Sailing from Norfolk 23 January 1945 to escort Bon Homme Richard to Trinidad, Drexler then sailed on to reach San Diego 10 February. Three days later she got underway for Pearl Harbor for antiaircraft and shore bombardment exercises until the 23rd when she sailed on escort duty to Guadalcanal and Ulithi, the staging area for the Okinawa invasion. Drexler departed Ulithi 27 March 1945 bound for Okinawa and dangerous duty on a radar picket station. On 28 May at 0700, two kamikazes attacked Drexler and Lowry. The first was downed by the combined fire of the two destroyers and planes from the combat air patrol. The second tried to crash onto Lowry but missed, hitting Drexler instead and cutting off all power and starting large gasoline fires.

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