USS Guest ( DD - 472 ) USS " Guest " ( DD - 472 ) , a " Fletcher " - class destroyer , was a ship of the United States Navy named for Commodore John Guest ( 1822 – 1879 ) . " Guest " was launched 20 February 1942 by the Boston Naval Shipyard ; sponsored by Mrs . Ann Guest Walsh , granddaughter of Com . Guest ; commissioned 15 December 1942 , Commander Henry Crommelin in command . " Guest " decommissioned in 1946 and was transferred on loan to the Brazilian Navy in 1959 , where she served as " Pará " ( D27 ) . She was stricken in 1979 and was sunk as a target ship in 1983 . 1943 . After shakedown training at Guantanamo Bay , " Guest " made a cruise to Trinidad with aircraft carrier " Independence " ( CVL - 22 ) . This was followed by a convoy escort voyage from New York to Casablanca and return to Boston ( 28 April – 31 May 1943 ) . She departed Boston 20 July for brief training in Hawaiian waters , then joined the 3rd Fleet 28 August at Efate , New Hebrides Islands . After an offensive sweep to the Santa Cruz Islands and several escort missions to Nouméa , New Caledonia , she departed Efate 28 October for invasion of Bougainville . She guarded transports during the initial landings 1 November assisting in shooting down two enemy bombers . In the following months she escorted troop and logistic convoys from Guadalcanal to Cape Torokina , twice driving off bombers and torpedo plane s which attacked her convoy . She silenced Japanese coastal defense guns at Motupene Point , Bougainville , 4 December 1943 , and bombarded the Saba River area 25 January 1944 . 1944 . " Guest " protected transports landing the Marine Raiders on Green Island 31 January 1944 . As the Raiders reembarked the next morning , she made two depth charge attacks on a diving submarine . " Hudson " ( DD - 475 ) followed up this attack to complete the kill of the 1 , 400 - ton Japanese submarine " I - 171 " . " Guest " again screened transports during invasion of the Green Islands 15 February 1944 . She bombarded Kavieng , New Ireland 25 February , and the Sanba River area on Bougainville 17 March . She rescued the crew of " PT - 63 " on the latter date . In a case of mistaken identity on 17 March motor torpedo boat PT - 283 was sunk by friendly fire from destroyer Guest ( DD - 472 ) , in the Solomons , near Choseul Island . Her 5 inch gunfire destroyed the grounded Japanese freighter " Meisyo Maru " 30 April to the east of Nemto Island . After amphibious assault training in the New Hebrides , she departed from Roi , in the Marshall Islands , 10 June 1944 for the invasion and capture of the Mariana Islands . " Guest " poured gunfire ahead of troops landing on Saipan 15 June 1944 , then helped repel four massive air raids against Admiral Marc Mitscher ' s Fast Carrier Task Force in the Battle of the Philippine Sea . She also conducted pre - invasion bombardment of Guam and gave direct gunfire support to the landings on Guam 21 July 1944 . She remained on bombardment support and patrol stations until 9 August , then sailed for amphibious warfare exercises in the Solomons . " Guest " departed Purvis Bay , Solomon Islands , 6 September 1944 . A unit of Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf ' s Western Fire Support group , she bombarded Anguar in the Palau Islands 12 September 1944 . The following day she rescued 7 officers and 45 men of destroyer " Perry " ( DMS - 17 ) , which hit a mine and sank off Anguar . " Guest " departed the area 25 September and entered San Francisco Bay 25 October 1944 for overhaul . 1945 . Overhaul was followed by training in Hawaiian waters until 27 January 1945 when she departed with a task group bound via the Marianas for Iwo Jima . Her 5 inch guns blasted that island during the initial invasion 19 February 1945 . She continued gunfire support until 28 February when she sailed to join the screen of escort carrier s in San Pedro Bay , Philippine Islands . " Guest " departed San Pedro Bay 27 March to guard escort carriers giving direct support to the invasion of Okinawa . Detached 9 May , she was assigned to antiaircraft defense station in the Okinawas western transport area . The night of 25 May a kamikaze suicide plane glanced off her mast and crashed alongside to portside , causing damage to the stack . She remained on antiaircraft defense station until 1 July 1945 . She was then routed via Ulithi and the Marshalls in the screen of escort carriers bound to Adak , Alaska , thence to Ominato , Japan . After plane guard duty with carriers along the coast of Honshū , she returned via Adak to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 15 November 1945 . " Guest " decommissioned at San Diego 4 June 1946 and remained in reserve until transferred 5 June 1959 on loan to the government of Brazil . " Pará " ( D27 ) . The ship served in the Brazilian Navy as " Pará " ( D27 ) . She was stricken in 1979 . After decommissioning she was used as a target ship for " Exocet MM 38 " - missiles launched by the frigate " Niterói ( F 40 ) " . She was sunk by two torpedoes fired by the Brazilian submarine " Ceará ( S 14 ) " approximately 80 NM south of Cabo Frio lighthouse . Honors . " Guest " received eight battle star s for service in World War II .