USS William D. Porter (DD-579)

USS William D. Porter (DD-579), in Massacre Bay, Attu, Aleutian Islands, with other destroyers, 9 June 1944.
History
Name	USS William D. Porter (DD-579)
Namesake	William D. Porter
Builder	Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down	7 May 1942
Launched	27 September 1942
Commissioned	6 July 1943
Stricken	11 July 1945
Fate	Sunk by kamikazes,[1] 10 June 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	Fletcher-class destroyer
Displacement	2,050 tons
Length	376 ft 6 in (114.7 m)
Beam	39 ft 8 in (12.1 m)
Draft	17 ft 9 in (5.4 m)
Propulsion	60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 propellers
Speed	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Range	6500 nmi. (12,000 km) at 15 kn
Complement	273
Armament	5 × 5 in./38 guns (127 mm), 4 × 40 mm AA guns, 4 × 20 mm AA guns, 10 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, 6 × depth charge projectors, 2 × depth charge tracks

USS William D. Porter (DD-579) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Commodore William D. Porter (1808–1864), during World War II. She served in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, the latter where she was sunk by a kamikaze.