USS Laffey DD-724 Photograph by Norma Brandsberg

USS Laffey DD-724

by Norma Brandsberg

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Title

USS Laffey DD-724

Artist

Norma Brandsberg

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

My husband talked me into going to see the USS, Laffey, the ship that wouldn't die outside Charleston. The USS LAFFEY (DD-724) is the most decorated World War II era US Destroyer still in existence. DD-724 was named in honor of LAFFEY (DD-459), sunk during the Naval Battle for Guadalcanal (13 November 1942). Both ships were named in honor of Seaman Bartlett Laffey, a Civil War Medal of Honor recipient.

During the Battle of Okinawa, one United States Navy ship went up against unbelievable odds — and survived to tell the incredible tale. The Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer USS Laffey DD 724 faced off against a horde of Japanese pilots, known as kamikazes, were willing to crash into American vessels and sacrifice their lives to complete their mission.

A current movie in production to star Mel Gibson, "Hell from the Heavens" The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II’s Greatest Kamikaze Attack. The film will be centered around the 90 minutes of chaos experienced by the crew of the Laffey on April 16, 1945. In the span of roughly an hour and a half, the Laffey was hit by four bombs and struck by as many as eight kamikazes.

USS Laffey’s story didn’t start and end with those fateful 90 minutes, however. After Okinawa, she was repaired and went on to see action in the Korean War. After Korea, she served until 1975, when she was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Register of Vessels. Unlike many of her sister ships that went directly to the scrapyard, she was preserved as a museum and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1986 and currently is moored at Patriot's Point, just across from Charleston.

We spent most of a day here touring and photographing the USS Laffey and the aircraft carrier, "The Yorktown." It was a surprise to me I found both very interesting and tried to photograph both in an artistic way.

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