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Northrop Grumman

Delivers Aegis Destroyer

Northrop Grumman Corporation's

Ship Systems sector commemorated delivery of its 19th U.S. Navy Aegis- guided missile destroyer, Pinckney (DDG 91), during a ceremony onboard the ship at the company's operations along the west hank of the Pascagoula

River. In naming Pinckney, the Navy honors Navy Cook Third Class,

William Pinckney, (1915-1975), recip- ient of the Navy Cross for his coura- geous rescue of a fellow crewmember onboard the USS Enterprise (CV 6) dur- ing the 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz. "We at Northrop Grumman are as proud of this ship as any we have built," said Bob

Merchent, vice president, DDG 51

Program. "When this ship takes her place in the fleet, we know we have met the trust placed in us by the Navy and the American people."

New Aegis Destroyer

Christened Halsey

A new Aegis guided missile destroyer DDG 97 was officially christened "Halsey," honoring

Fleet Adm. William Frederick "Bull"

Halsey Jr., a World War I and World War II

Naval hero. Adm. Halsey was born in October 1892 in Elizabeth, N.J. He earned a Navy

Cross for his service in WW I. Early in WW II,

Halsey's carrier task force took part in the

Doolittle raid on Tokyo. He took command in the South Pacific in October 1942 at a critical stage of the Guadalcanal Campaign. Halsey took command of the Third Fleet in May 1945 and through the end of the Pacific War.

Promoted to the rank of Fleet Admiral - becoming the fourth and last officer to hold the rank - in December 1945, Halsey retired from active duty in March 1947, and died in

August 1959. Halsey (DDG 97) is the 47TH ship in the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class of

Aegis guided missile destroyers — the U.S.

Navy's most powerful destroyer fleet. Of 28 ships under contract to Northrop Grumman's

Ship Systems sector, Halsey is the 22nd

Aegis destroyer to be launched and chris- tened.

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Cmdr. Robert M. Byron, U.S. Navy, of Asheville, N.C.. a 1985 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, will be the new ship's commissioning com- manding officer. "Thousands of shipbuilders dedicated their efforts to produce the absolute best of American industrial capability," said

Cmdr. Byron. "Thousands of people worked hard to make this day happen; to give this brilliant technological achieve- ment a pulse."

DDG 91 will be commissioned USS

Pinckney on May 29 in Port Hueneme,

Calif., and will be homeported in San

Diego as a member of the Pacific Fleet's

Destroyer Squadron TWENTY THREE.

DDG 91 is the 19th of 28 Aegis destroy- ers under contract to Northrop

Grumman Ship Systems.

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