High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Herndon (DD-638), a Gleaves-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commander William Lewis Herndon. Herndon was launched on 2 February 1942 by the Norfolk Navy Yard, sponsored by Miss Lucy Herndon Crockett, great-grandniece of Comdr. Herndon, and commissioned 20 December 1942, Comdr. Granville A. Moore in command. After shakedown off the Maine coast, Herndon escorted a convoy from New York City to Casablanca, returning to New York 14 May 1943 escorting a tanker. Sailing from Norfolk on 8 June, she reached Algiers on 24 June and prepared for a key role in the Sicilian campaign. As Allied amphibious forces under the overall command of General Dwight D. Eisenhower launched the initial strike at "the soft underbelly of Europe" 10 July 1943, Herndon performed antisubmarine patrol duty as well as fire support for Lieutenant General George S. Patton's U.S. 7th Army and General Bernard L. Montgomery's British 8th Army.

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