uss willis a. lee (dd-929)

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aid down:	1 November 1949
eclassified:	DL-4, 9 February 1951
aunched:	26 January 1952
ommissioned:	5 October 1954
ecommissioned:	19 December 1969
ate:	Sold for scrap, 18 May 1973
truck:	15 May 1972
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USS Willis A. Lee (DD-929) was a Mitscher-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Vice Admiral Willis A. Ching Lee USN (1888–1945). Willis A. Lee was laid down by the Shipbuilding Division of the Bethlehem Steel Company at Quincy in Massachusetts on 1 November 1949, reclassified as a destroyer leader and designated DL-4 on 9 February 1951, launched on 26 January 1952 by Mrs. Fitzhugh L. Palmer, Jr., niece of Vice Admiral Lee and commissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard on 5 October 1954. Willis A. Lee participated in quarantine operations during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. Willis A. Lee was decommissioned on 19 December 1969, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 May 1972 and sold for scrap to the Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation of New York City on 18 May 1973. Willis A. Lee was featured in the 1957 movie Windjammer filmed by the Louis de Rochemont studios. Willis A. Lee

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