USS Cannon DE 99

USS CANNON DE 99

Named for Marine 1st Lieutenant George Ham Cannon, b. 5 November 1915,
Webster Groves, MO, lived in Michigan;
KIA 7 December 1941 at Wake Island; posthumous Medal of Honor

Type: DET
Builder: DWD
Keel laid 11/14/42
Launched 05/25/43
Commissioned 09/26/43
First CO: Lt Cdr G. Morris (1)
Decommissioned 12/19/44 at Natal, Brazil
To Brazil as BAEPENDI 12/19/44
Served Brazil until 1960, scrapped 1974
Stricken (US) 07/20/53

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006