USS Connolly DE 306

USS CONNOLLY DE 306

Mare Island, CA., 1944

Photos submitted by Jeffy Byrd for Floyd Smith. Mr. Smith served aboard Connolly during WWII.
Photo courtesy of navsource web site

Named for Chief Pay Clerk John Gaynor Connolly, b. 28 April 1893, Savannah, GA;
KIA 7 December 1941 aboard OKLAHOMA (BB-37)

Type: GMT
Builder: MINY
Keel laid 06/21/43
Launched 01/15/44
Commissioned 07/08/44
First CO: Lt W. A. Collier
Decommissioned 11/22/45; two battle stars
Stricken 12/19/45
Sold 05/20/46, scrapped June 1946
Unit of CortDiv 61

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