USS Chung-Hoon DDG 93 / Rear Admiral Gordon
Pai'ea Chung-Hoon / Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer – US Navy
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Naval Forces
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Guided Missile Destroyer
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DDG 93 -
USS Chung-Hoon
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USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93)
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US Navy photo
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Type,
Class:
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Guided Missile Destroyer; Arleigh Burke – class / Flight
IIA;
planned and built as DDG
93; |
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Builder:
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Ingalls Shipbuilding,
Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA |
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STATUS:
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Awarded: March 6, 1998; Laid down: January 14, 2002; Launched: January 11, 2003; Commissioned:
September 18, 2004; ACTIVE UNIT/ in
commission (Pacific Fleet) |
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Homeport:
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA
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Namesake:
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Named
after and in honor of Rear Admiral Gordon Pai’ea Chung-Hoon
(1910 – 1979);
> see history, below;
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Ship's
Motto:
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> IMUA E NA KOA KAI < ‘Go Forwards,
Sea Warriors’
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Technical Data:
(Measures, Propulsion, Armament,
Aviation, etc.)
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see: INFO > Guided
Missile Destroyer / Arleigh Burke - class. |
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Pictures,
photos & more ...
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Gordon
Pai’ea Chung-Hoon |
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Photo credits: US Navy, US Naval
Historical Center |
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Namesake
& History: |
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Rear Admiral Gordon Pai’ea
Chung-Hoon (July 25, 1910 – July, 1979);
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Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea
Chung-Hoon was born on July 25, 1910, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The second
youngest of five Chung-Hoon children, he attended the U.S. Naval Academy and
graduated in May 1934. While at the Naval Academy, he was a valued member of
the Navy Football team. Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon is a
recipient of the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and
extraordinary heroism as commanding officer of USS Sigsbee (DD 502) from May
1944 to October 1945. In the spring of 1945, Sigsbee assisted in the
destruction of 20 enemy planes while screening a carrier strike force off the
Japanese island of Kyushu. On April 14, 1945, while on radar picket station
off Okinawa, a kamikaze crashed into Sigsbee, reducing her starboard engine
to five knots and knocking out the ship's port engine and steering control.
Despite the damage, Admiral Chung-Hoon, then a Commander, valiantly kept his
anti-aircraft batteries delivering "prolonged and effective fire"
against the continuing enemy air attack while simultaneously directing the
damage control efforts that allowed Sigsbee to make port under her own power. After retiring from the Navy
in 1959, Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon was appointed by William Quinn, Hawaii's
first elected governor since statehood, to serve as director of the state
Department of Agriculture. Rear Admiral Chung-Hoon died in July 1979. |
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USS Chung-Hoon
(DDG 93): |
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… DDG 93 history
wanted … |
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