USS Johnston (DD-557) [SEP] vessel class
USS Johnston (DD-557)
USS "Johnston" (DD-557) was a World War II-era "Fletcher"-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy. She was the first Navy ship named after Lieutenant John V. Johnston. The ship was most famous for her bold action in the Battle off Samar. The small "tincan" destroyer, armed with nothing larger than guns and torpedoes, would lead the attack of a handful of light ships which had inadvertently been left unprotected in the path of a massive Japanese fleet
" (DD-444) sunk after a collision in fog with the USS "Chemung" (AO-30) in the North Atlantic, 22 August 1942.
USS "Jacob Jones" (DD-130) sunk after being torpedoed by the German submarine U-578 off Cape May, New Jersey, 28 February 1942.
USS "Jarvis" (DD-393) sunk by Japanese aircraft south of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 9 August 1942.
USS "Johnston" (DD-557) sunk by Japanese warships off Samar, Philippine Islands, 25 October