On this day in Navy and Marine Corps History: 1945 - Destroyer USS Higbee (DD-806) is commissioned as the first U.S. Navy combat ship to bear the name of a woman in naval service, and who served as head of the Navy Nurse Corps. (Source: Navy 01/27/22)
Mississippi Note: USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG-123) is an Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer, the 73rd overall in the class. Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., was awarded the contract for the ship in June 2013. The ship's keel was laid in November 2017, and christened on April 24, 2021, in Pascagoula.
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