High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Sproston (DD-577) was a Fletcher-class destroyer. She was the second ship named for Admiral John G. Sproston, an officer in the United States Navy during the Civil War. Sproston was laid down on 1 April 1942 by the Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange,Tex.; launched on 31 August 1942; sponsored by Mrs. Aline G. Darst; and commissioned on 19 May 1943, Comdr. Fred R. Stickney in command. Following shakedown off Cuba, Sproston transited the Panama Canal on 4 November 1943. After a brief stop at San Francisco, California, she sailed for Pearl Harbor on 15 November and, 11 days later, headed for the Aleutian Islands. She entered Kuluk Bay, Adak, on 1 December and was assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 49, a unit of Task Force (TF) 94.

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