USS Mustin (DD-413)

• 5 × 12.7 cm L/38 Sk
• 4 × 12.7 mm MG
• 8 × 53.3 cm torpedo tube ∅
• 2 × depth charge chutes
• 10 × depth charge throwers

The USS Mustin ( identifier: DD -413 ) was an American destroyer the Sims - class during the Second World War. The keel was on December 20, 1937 at Newport News Shipbuilding. The launching ceremony was held December 8, 1938 instead and the putting finally on 15 September 1939.

She was with her ​​sister ships USS Morris USS Hammann and participated in the Battle of Midway and active in the carrier strike group the USS Yorktown and the USS Lexington. In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in October 1942, she was part of the escort of the USS Hornet, which had to be sunk by her with torpedoes after the carrier had previously been heavily damaged by Japanese aircraft.

In the months after the ship was first to Guadalcanal, then used in the Aleutian Islands. She then served in the conquest of the Marshall Islands, as well as part of the security of carrier battle groups in the reconquest of New Guinea. After the Mustin had mainly escorted convoys in the various landing operations in the Philippines, she set in April 1945 together with the destroyers USS Russell, Morris and many other naval units, the landings on Okinawa.

She was abandoned in July 1946 the atomic bomb tests in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll, but survived this. Ultimately, it was placed a little later ( late August 1946) decommissioned and sunk on April 18, 1948 by artillery fire as a target ship at Kwajalein.