High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Kimberly (DD-521), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly (1838–1902). Kimberly was launched 4 February 1943, by Bethlehem Steel Co., Staten Island, N.Y., sponsored by Miss Elsie S. Kimberly, daughter of Admiral Kimberly; and commissioned 22 May 1943, Commander Harry W. Smith in command. After shakedown Kimberly cleared Norfolk 10 September 1943, and steamed toward the action in the Pacific. Following additional training at Pearl Harbor, the destroyer arrived off Makin 20 November to begin the Navy's relentless conquest of Micronesia. Throughout the Gilbert Islands campaign, the destroyer served in ASW screen for the battleships and cruisers supporting Marines fighting ashore with deadly accurate and devastating naval gunfire.

Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.