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Little

Class	Fletcher class
Type	Destroyer (DD)
Hull	DD-803
Launched	1944-05-22
Commissioned	1944-08-19
Fate	Sunk. 3 May 1945
Armament (class)	Five single 5-inch guns, two funnels, and two sets of torpedo tubes.
Command	Hall, Madison Captain from 19 August 1944

Laid down, displacement, length, beam, draft, speed, and complement are not stored for each hull, so this table leaves them out.

The armament line is the class drawing, not a measurement of this hull.

USS Little (DD-803) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was launched on 22 May 1944 and commissioned on 19 August 1944.

Madison Hall took command on 19 August 1944, the day the ship was commissioned. His captaincy of Little dates from that day.

She took part in the Okinawa operation, dated from 1 April 1945. That campaign carried her service into the opening days of May. On 3 May 1945, during the Okinawa operation, Little was sunk. The ship was lost on that day.

Commissioned on 19 August 1944, she had been in service a little more than eight months when she went down. From the launch on 22 May 1944 to the sinking on 3 May 1945, less than a year passed. The hull went down with the sinking on 3 May 1945, and the career of DD-803 ended on that date.

The pictures on this page are the originals.