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DD-761 USS BUCK


Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign - NHJF

Tactical Voice Radio Call Sign (circa 1968) - FAVOR

CLASS - ALLEN M. SUMNER As Built.
Displacement 3218 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 376' 6"(oa) x 40' 10" x 14' 2" (Max)
Armament 6 x 5"/38AA (3x2), 12 x 40mm AA, 11 x 20mm AA, 10 x 21" tt.(2x5).
Machinery, 60,000 SHP; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 36.5 Knots, Range 3300 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew 336.
Operational and Building Data
Laid down by Bethlehem Steel, San Francisco. February 1 1944.
Launched March 11 1945 and commissioned June 28 1946.
Decommissioned (?).
Stricken July 15 1973.
To Brazil July 16 1973, renamed Alagoas.
Fate Stricken June 30 1995, and broken up for scrap in 1995.

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Buck 94kArtist's conception of the Buck as she appeared following her FRAM overhaul by the renowned graphic illustrator John Barrett with the text written by naval author and historian Robert F. Sumrall. Their company Navy Yard Associates offers prints of most destroyers, destroyer escorts, submarines and aircraft carriers in various configurations during the ship's lifetime. The prints can be customized with ship's patches, your photograph, your bio, etc. If you decide to purchase artwork from them please indicate that you heard about their work from NavSource.Navy Yard Associates
Buck 98kUndated, location unknown.D.N. Dunham
Buck 109kPhoto #: 80-G-424756. USS Buck (DD-761) ship's crew holds a Christmas party for underprivileged Japanese children from Yokosuka, December 1950. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Bill Gonyo
Buck 107kUnderway during operations off the Korean coast, which is faintly visible in the distance. Photo is dated 22 February 1952. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Fred Weiss
Buck 117kUSS Buck (DD-761), USS Wisconsin (BB-64) and USS Saint Paul (CA-73). Steaming in close formation during operations off the Korean coast. Photo is dated 22 February 1952. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.Joe Radigan
Buck 126kAnother view.Joe Radigan
Buck 90kUSS Dixie (AD 14) at Sasebo, Japan with USS John A. Bole (DD 755); USS Buck (DD 761); USS John W. Thomason (DD 760); and USS Lofberg (DD 759) moored to port, circa 1953.Wayne Schafer
Buck 73kUSS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) and USS Buck (DD-761) refueling from USS Mispillion (AO-105), from the USS Philippine Sea Cruise Book, 1955.Richard J. Havener
AT3, VF-143, 1955
Buck 70kSan Diego, February 5 1966© Richard Leonhardt
Buck 110kUSS Buck (DD 761) at sea in the Pacific Ocean. 16 April 1969. Photo by PH1 D. L. Nichols. No: K-71173.Fabio Peña
Buck 330kPhoto from the USS Niagara Falls (AFS-3) during an underway VertRep in the South China Sea in 1970William P. Jones, M.D.
Buck 50kShip's patch.Mike Smolinski
Buck 22kShip's patch.Mike Smolinski
On Brazilian Service
Buck 118kUSS BUCK - as the CT "ALAGOAS" (D 36), in the Guanabara Bay, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil circa 1974. Published photo by Brazilian Navy (BRN).Luiz BRAZIL Cotta FT3 (Ret. BRN)

USS BUCK DD-761 History
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Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: John Connolly
Address: 7 Tenerife Way, Hot Springs, AR 71909
Phone: (501)922-3969
E-mail: joncon@cox-internet
Next reunion: May 27, 2004 at McLean, VA

Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.


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