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Episode 5 - USS BUCKLEY
Don't blink! We've got 19 minutes to relive the attack that put USS BUCKLEY DE-51 on the map. Captain Abel gives an order that hadn't been issued in the U.S. Navy since 1814: "Standby to repel boarders." Learn how the sailors of BUCKLEY defended their ship with anything they could get their hands on, including hammers, empty projectiles, and coffee cups.
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USS BUCKLEY christened in Hingham, Massachusetts, January 1943.
BUCKLEY underway in the Atlantic, 1943.
BUCKLEY showing off the turning radius of a Destroyer Escort, 1943.
Capt. Abel receives the Navy Cross, June 1944.
What harm can come from ramming subs?
USS BUCKLEY DE-51.
BUCKLEY in her measure 32/3D Dazzle Camouflage, 1944.
BUCKLEY shown in her DER configuration, 1945.