USS Damato (DD-871) was a of the United States Navy

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. She was named for Corporal Anthony P. Damato

Anthony P. Damato

Corporal Anthony Peter Damato was a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor posthumously for his valor and sacrifice of life during World War II...

 USMC (1922–1944) who was killed in action during the battle of Eniwetok

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 in the Marshall Islands

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 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor

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Damato was laid down by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at Staten Island

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 in New York

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 on 10 May 1945, launched on 21 November 1945 by Mrs. A. P. Damato and commissioned on 27 April 1946.

Damato alternated operations along the east coast and in the Caribbean

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 with the 2nd Fleet

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 with deployments to the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet

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Damato was decommissioned on 30 September 1980 and transferred to Pakistan

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 as Tippu Sultan, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register

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on 1 October 1980 and scrapped in 1994.