#OTD in 1943, Buckley-class destroyer escort USS Harmon (DE-678) was launched. The Harmon was the first U.S. Navy warship named for an African-American. Mess Attendant Leonard Roy Harmon was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his valor during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
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