
The USS Purdy was an American Allen M Sumner Class destroyer of 2200 tons displacement launched in 1944. The USS Purdy was powered by four boilers providing a top speed of 36.5 knots. She carried a complement of 350 and was armed with six 5 inch guns; twelve 40 mm anti-aircraft guns; eleven 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and ten 21 inch torpedo tubes arr...
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born 1923, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
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