CHUNG-HOON DDG 93

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Burke Class (Flight IIa) Guided Missile Destroyer Keel Laid 14 January 2002 - Launched 15 December 2002 Christened 11 January 2003 USS CHUNG-HOON DDG-93 Commissioned (Special) 22 March 2004 Commissioned 18 September 2004

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1. USS Chung-Hoon DDG-93 Covers Page 1    (2002-2021)

 

Postmarks

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

 

Locy Type FDC 2-2(n+) (USS,FPO AP 96662-1302)

2004-09-18

First Day of Commissioning, cachet by Dan Goodwin

 

Locy Type 11-2m(n+)(USS,FPO AP 96662-1302) (2007)

2007-07-23

Ship's cachet, serviced by Thad Kaczkowski

 

Locy Type 11-2(n+)(USS,FPO AP 96662-1302) (2009)

2009-05-01

Ship's cachet, serviced by Thad Kaczkowski

 

Locy Type 11-2(n+)(USS,FPO AP 96662-1302) (2011)

2016-02-22

Ship's cachet, serviced by Mike Brock

 

Locy Type 11-2(n) (USS,FPO AP 96662)

2020-11-19

Collectors request by Richard F. Hoffner

 

Locy Type 12-2(n+)(USS,FPO AP 96662-1302) (2008)

2008-06-11

Ship's cachet, serviced by Thad Kaczkowski

 

Locy Type 12-2(n+)(USS,FPO AP 96662-1302) (2011)

2016-02-22

Ship's cachet, serviced by Mike Brock

 

Locy Type 12-2c(n) (USS, FPO AP 96662)

2020-01-06

Postmark from the back of the cover, from the Foster Miller collection.

 

Locy Type F USCS Postmark Catalog Illus. CD-10

2008-06-11

100th Anniversary of the Great White Fleet. Ship's cachet, serviced by Thad Kaczkowski

 

Locy Type Meter PB5 PB#8600912

2011-09-30

Ship's meter strip, courtesy of the 2011-2012 USCS Ship's Postmark Survey. Hull number incorrectly given as DDG-59.

 

Other Information

NAMESAKE - Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon, USN (July 10 1910 - July 24 1979).
A 1934 graduate of the US Naval Academy, Chung-Hoon was awarded the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as commanding officer of the USS SIGSBEE DD-502. In the spring of 1945, SIGSBEE assisted in the destruction of 20 enemy planes while screening a carrier strike force off the Japanese Island of Kyushu. On April 14 1945, while on radar picket station off Okinawa, a kamikaze crashed the ship reducing her starboard engine to five knots and knocking out the ship's port engine and steering control. Despite the damage, Commander Chung-Hoon valiantly kept his antiaircraft batteries delivering "prolonged and effective fire" against the continuing enemy air attack while simultaneously directing the damage control efforts that allowed his ship to make port under her own power.

Ensign Chung-Hoon was aboard USS ARIZONA BB-39 during the Pearl Harbor Attack December 7 1941.

The ships sponsor is Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon of Honolulu, Hawaii, RAdm. Chung-Hoon's niece.

 

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