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{| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="margin-left:5px"
|align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:OBannonDD450.jpg|300px]]
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|USS ''O'Bannon'' (DD-450)
|-
!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career
!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:50 star jack.png|48px|United States Navy Jack]]
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| Class:
| ''Fletcher''
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| Laid down:
| 03 March 1941
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| Launched:
| 19 February 1942
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| Commissioned:
| 26 June 1942
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| Decommissioned:
| 30 January 1970
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| Fate:
| Sold for scrapping, 06 June 1970
|-
! colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General characteristics
|-
| Displacement:
| 2,700 t
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| Length:
| 376 ft 4 in
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| Beam:
| 39 ft 9 in
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| Draft:
| 13 ft
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| Speed:
| 35.5 knots
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| Complement:
| 273 officers and men
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| Armament:
| five 5" guns; six 20mm guns; 10 torpedo tubes
|}
'''USS ''O'Bannon''''' (DD-450) was a destroyer which saw extensive service in [[World War II]]. She was named for Lieutenant [[Presley Neville O’Bannon]], [[United States Marine Corps]] (1801-1850), the first American to raise the flag against an enemy on foreign soil.
'''USS ''O'Bannon''''' (DD-450) was a destroyer which saw extensive service in [[World War II]]. She was named for Lieutenant [[Presley Neville O’Bannon]], [[United States Marine Corps]] (1801-1850), the first American to raise the flag against an enemy on foreign soil.