USS Mansfield ( DD - 728 ) USS " Mansfield " ( DD - 728 ) , an , is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Sergeant Duncan Mansfield , a Marine who , in 1804 , during the First Barbary War sailed with Lieutenant Stephen Decatur aboard the on a covert mission to destroy the recently captured . The name " Mansfield " was canceled for DD - 594 and reassigned to DD - 728 on 26 July 1943 . DD - 594 was renamed on 21 March 1944 before launching . Initial operations . " Mansfield " was laid down 28 August 1943 by the Bath Iron Works Corp . , Bath , Maine ; launched 29 January 1944 ; sponsored by Mrs . Edmond F . Jewell ; and commissioned 14 April 1944 , Commander Robert E . Brady , Jr . , in command . After shakedown off Bermuda and further training at Norfolk and Casco Bay , Maine , " Mansfield " steamed via the Panama Canal for the West Coast , arriving San Diego 10 September 1944 . A week later , in company with DesDiv 122 , she headed for Pearl Harbor , conducting training exercises en route . After antiaircraft and shore bombardment exercises at Pearl Harbor , " Mansfield " and four other destroyers escorted a convoy to Ulithi . World War II . There " Mansfield " joined TG 38 . 1 to screen and serve as picket during carrier strikes against central Luzon , including the Manila area . On 10 December 1944 , " Mansfield " , with DesRon 61 in TG 38 . 2 , again screened raids on Luzon . After several successful strikes , a sudden typhoon canceled further strikes and capsized destroyers , , and . " Mansfield ' s " task group picked up survivors and returned to Ulithi . On 30 December , " Mansfield " joined TG 30 . 1 for airstrikes against Formosa and central Luzon . Afterwards , Admiral William Halsey took the 3rd Fleet , with TG 30 . 1 , through the Bashi Strait into the South China Sea , up to then a private lake of the Japanese Navy . However , no Japanese units challenged Halsey ' s fleet during its 3 , 800 mile foray along the China coast from Hong Kong to Saigon . From 10 to 20 January 1945 , 3rd Fleet aircraft battered enemy facilities and merchant ships and destroyed 112 Japanese planes . In early February 1945 , " Mansfield " screened in TG 58 . 1 as carriers flew strikes against targets in the Tokyo industrial area . On 15 February " Mansfield " helped splash an enemy fighter closing the formation . From 17 to 23 February , TG 58 . 1 lent fighter support for the Iwo Jima assault , then steamed at full speed back to the Tokyo area for bombing runs on Nagoya and Kobe . As heavy weather set in , the task group retired southward , pounding enemy shore installations on Okinawa while en route to Ulithi for replenishment . From 14 March to 27 April 1945 , " Mansfield " screened carriers during strikes against southern Kyushu , followed by sweeps against Okinawa Gunto . On 9 May 1945 , her flattops again pounded Kyushu , Okinawa , and the island groups between . From 28 May , when the 5th Fleet again became the 3rd Fleet and TG 58 . 1 became TG 38 . 1 , to the Japanese surrender 15 August , the destroyer operated off the Japanese homeland . Three weeks before VJ Day , " Mansfield " , with eight destroyers of DesRon 61 , conducted a daring high ‑ speed torpedo run into Nojima Saki , sinking or damaging four enemy ships . After witnessing the formal Japanese surrender ceremony ( alongside the USS Missouri ) in September in Tokyo Bay , " Mansfield " returned to the West Coast . During the postwar years , the combat veterans trained reservists from the West Coast and made annual cruises to WestPac as part of the Destroyer Force , Pacific Fleet . Korean War . On 27 June 1950 , two days after the North Korean invasion of South Korea , " Mansfield " steamed from Sasebo , Japan , to South Korea to provide gunfire support and escort services . Three months later , as flagship for DesDiv 91 , she led the division into Inchon Channel , openly inviting shore batteries to unmask themselves . After the shore opened up upon her , " Mansfield " smothered them with a 5 ‑ inch bombardment ; she suffered no damage or casualties in the action . Two weeks after Inchon , " Mansfield " , while searching for a downed Air Force B ‑ 26 , struck a mine which severed the bow below the main deck and seriously injured 27 crewmembers . Receiving a stub bow at Subic Bay , she steamed to Naval Shipyard , Bremerton , Washington for repairs ; rejoining the U . N . Fleet off South Korea late in 1951 for gunfire support , escort , and shore bombardment duty . After Korea , " Mansfield " alternated between duty in WestPac and training West Coast reservists . Overhauled in the fall of 1955 at the Naval Shipyard , Long Beach , California , she returned there in 1960 for FRAM . The Mark II overhaul and conversion replaced her 3 inch 50 cal . battery with Mark 25 and Mark 32 antisubmarine torpedo batteries , and configured the aft superstructure for DASH . From October 1960 to October 1961 , the " new " destroyer conducted training exercises with the 1st Fleet off the West Coast . For the following 3 years , home ported at Yokosuka , she provided escort service for the 7th Fleet ' s Fast Carrier Attack Force . Vietnam . To be home ported at Long Beach , the destroyer returned to the United States in June 1964 . On 20 August 1965 " Mansfield " again sailed westward for duty with the 7th Fleet . For the next 6 months she carried out screening and plane guard duties with fast carriers , and provided gunfire support for South Vietnamese , Australian , and American forces fighting in South Vietnam . In June 1966 , " Mansfield " was once again assigned Yokosuka Naval Base as her homeport , after which her deployment schedule repeatedly took her back to the South China Sea for operations off the coast of Vietnam . Excluding 2 weeks in September with TF 130 as an alternate recovery ship for Gemini XI and 2 weeks in late November as station ship at Hong Kong , she spent the remainder of 1966 off the Vietnamese coast in roles which ranged from blockade patrol in the I Corps area and the interdiction of junk and sampan traffic from the north into South Vietnam , to gunfire support south of Saigon . Adding air ‑ sea rescue to her services in 1967 , she has continued to carry out similar missions in support of Allied operations in Vietnam from 1967 into 1969 . End of career . The " Mansfield " was decommissioned 4 February 1971 . On 1 February 1974 , she was officially stricken from the Navy Vessel Register . She was sold to Argentina 4 June 1974 and cannibalized for spare parts . " Mansfield " received five battle star s for World War II service , and three for Korean service . Crew . Matteo Disanto , Chief Boatswain Mate ( BMC ) , 1962 - 1964 ; Horace Joel Salazar , Sr . , Yeoman Second Class ( YN2 ) , 1948 - 1950