USS Wainright (DD-419) being refueled by the cruiser HMS Norfolk (78) on 03 July 1942. The ships were on convoy protection duty in the North Atlantic.
And USS Wainwright DD-419 photographed while escorting a convoy to North Africa, early 1943.
A Sims-class destroyer, commissioned in April 1940, USS Wainwright spent most of WW2 in the Atlantic on convoy escort duty, including one of the escorts for the ill-fated Convoy PQ-17 to Russia. Transferred to the Pacific in April 1945, after WW2 she was designated as a target ship for the atomic tests to be conducted at Bikini Atoll where she survived both blasts, afterwards Wainwright remained at Bikini almost two years until she was towed out to sea and sunk as target in July 1948. USS Wainwright earned seven battle stars for her WW2 service.
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