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| 74k | Born 22 April 1920 in Holyoke, Mass., Dennis Joseph Buckley, Jr., enlisted in the Navy 30 September 1940. Fireman First Class Buckley was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for displaying exceptional courage in attempting to board and salvage a blockade runner which had been intercepted by his ship Eberle (DD-430) on 10 March 1943. The explosion of demolition charges planted by the blockade runner's crew took his life. | Bill Gonyo | |
| 68k | Undated, location unknown. | - | |
| 107k | Undated, location unknown. | Ray Sorrell, STG2 | |
| 31k | Undated, location unknown. | Christopher Karwowski | |
| 68k | Undated postcard Copyright © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA. | Mike Smolinski | |
| 57k | Undated postcard Copyright © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA. | Mike Smolinski | |
| 37k | Circa 1950, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
| 117k | Circa 1961 just after command change at sea on the USS Turner Joy. | George Estey | |
| 162k | USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) steams with an "honor guard" of four destroyers, as a Change of Command ceremony takes place on her fight deck, 28 November 1962. Captain E.P. Kline relieved Captain G.C. Bullard as the carrier's Commanding Officer during the ceremony, which took place while she was operating in the Western Pacific with the Seventh Fleet. The destroyers, all units of Destroyer Squadron Nineteen, are (at left): USS Ernest G. Small (DDR-838) and USS Turner Joy (DD-951); (alongside the carrier): USS Black (DD-666) and USS Dennis J. Buckley (DDR-808). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Fred Weiss | |
| 62k | Pearl Harbor Hawaii, 1968 | © Richard Leonhardt | |
| 39k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
| 45k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
| 26k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski | |
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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