USS Douglas H. Fox (DD-779) was named for Lieutenant Commander Douglas Harold Fox, who commanded the destroyer Barton and went down with her when she was torpedoed during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942. The destroyer was launched by Todd-Pacific at Seattle on 30 September 1944 and commissioned on 26 December 1944, Commander Ray M. Pitts in command.
She exercised in the Hawaiian Islands from 31 March to 21 April 1945 and then joined the radar picket line at Okinawa, arriving on 5 May. In a concentrated attack by 11 enemy planes she accounted for seven, splashing five of the attackers before she was hit by a kamikaze and its bomb and sprayed with gasoline from one of her own victims. Seven of her crew were killed and 35 wounded. The fires were put out quickly and good damage control let her reach Kerama Retto under her own power. She went on to San Francisco for permanent repairs, arriving on 23 June 1945.
Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) as reproduced on Wikipedia, NavSource Online (commanding officer list), and Wikimedia Commons (photograph record).