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USS Fletcher News
Site last updated on: April 30, 2008
 The electronic version of the May 2008 Newsletter is now available to members upon request.
A CD with PDF versions of many Fletcher history files is now available. The cost including shipping is only $10 with half the proceeds going to our reunion group treasury.
The 2008 Reunion will be in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati. Details are being posted to the 2008 Reunion page as they become available. The Activity Form is now available.
The DDG-112 is the last of the unbuilt Arleigh Burke class destroyers that has not been named. If you haven’t written to the Secretary of the Navy yet, please consider doing so. We believe the DDG-112 should be named the USS Fletcher! A sample letter in Word format can be found in this zip file. Please modify and send to the address indicated.
News article about USS Fletcher DD-992 upkeep in Hawaii. Contrary to earlier rumors, the DD-992 is slated for an upcoming Sinkex, possibly a large exercise involving several aircraft carriers too. Details will be posted here and at dd992.org when they become available.
Captain John Nolan, the last CO of the USS Fletcher DD-992, assumed command of the USS Chancellorsville CG-62 on February 9th in San Diego.
New documents and accounts are now available at destroyerhistory.org about the Battle of Tassafaronga in which Fletcher was an active participant on November 30, 1942.
Click here for Reunion Group membership information and forms.
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