Launched on 6 October 1943, the Fletcher (DD-445)-class destroyer USS Richard P. Leary (DD-664) was built by the Boston Navy Yard and commissioned into Navy service on 23 February 1944. As a part of the Third Fleet, she assisted with the bombardment of Peleliu and the Palau islands in the autumn of 1944.

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