page_title: USS Holder (DD-819)
hierarchical_section_title: USS Holder (DD-819)
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Holder (DD-819) in the early 1970s.
context_page_description: USS Holder was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Lieutenant Randolph Mitchell Holder, a Navy pilot who was killed during the Battle of Midway.
  Holder was launched by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas, on 25 August 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Annette Holder, mother of Lieutenant Holder; and commissioned on 18 May 1946 at Orange, Texas, Comdr. B. K. Atkins in command.
context_section_description: USS Holder (DD/DDE-819) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Lieutenant (jg) Randolph Mitchell Holder, a Navy pilot who was killed during the Battle of Midway.
  Holder was launched by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas, on 25 August 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Annette Holder, mother of Lieutenant (j.g.) Holder; and commissioned on 18 May 1946 at Orange, Texas, Comdr. B. K. Atkins in command.
caption: USS Holder (DD-819) in the early 1970s
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