JOHN A MOORE FFG 19

Ship Name and Designation History

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Oliver Hazard Perry Class Guided Missile Frigate Keel Laid 19 December 1978 - Christened & Launched 20 October 1979 USS JOHN A. MOORE FFG-19 Commissioned 14 November 1981 Assigned to Naval Reserve Force at San Diego CA, 30 January 1987 Decommissioned 1 September 2000 Stricken from the NVR 1 September 2000 TCG GEDIZ F-495 (Turkish Naval Service) Transferred to Turkey 1 September 2000

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

 

Locy Type 2-1(n+) (B,D2, USN,USS)

1982-02-19

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Locy Type 9-1(n+u) (USN,USS)

1983-10-12

From the Bob Govern collection.

 

Other Information

USS JOHN A. MOORE earned the Joint Meritorious Unit Award Ribbon, two Navy Battle "E" Ribbons, the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and the Navy Sea Service Deployment Ribbon during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - Commander John A. Moore, USN (January 12 1910 – March 28 1944)
     Commander Moore was born on 12 January, 1910, in Brownwood, Texas. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy and was commissioned an Ensign on 2 June, 1932. He first served in the USS ARIZONA BB-39, and in November, 1934, transferred to New London, Connecticut, for submarine training. After serving five years on various submarines, and two tours ashore, Commander Moore received orders to the USS GRAYBACK SS-208 as commanding officer, on 29 June, 1943. It was while he was commanding the GRAYBACK that he distinguished himself as a courageous and highly effective submariner. Commander Moore was a pioneer in the development of the American style wolf-pack tactics and the submerged radar approaches that were used so effectively against the Japanese in the later stages of the war. The GRAYBACK was a member of the first American wolf-pack in the Pacific theater that consisted of six submarines. The group sank more than 100,000 tons of Japanese shipping in one month alone in early 1944. During the GRAYBACK's last three war patrols under the command of Commander Moore, the ship was credited with sinking at least nine Japanese ships and inflicting damage to many more. It was on Commander Moore's third patrol with the GRAYBACK that the submarine and its heroic crew were listed as missing in action when they failed to return from patrol on 28 March, 1944.
     For his service during World War II, Commander Moore was awarded the Navy Cross, with two Gold Stars in lieu of the second and third awards, the Purple Heart, the Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon, the Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal, the American Area Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, and the American Defense Service Medal.

The ships sponsor is Virginia Moore.

 

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