USS Taylor (DD-468)

USS Taylor (DD-468)

USS Taylor (DD/DDE-468) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral William Rogers Taylor (1811–1889). She was laid down on 28 August 1941 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched on 7 June 1942, sponsored by Mrs. H. A. Baldridge; and commissioned on 28 August 1942 at the Charlestown Navy Yard near Boston, Mass., Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Katz in command.

Taylor was the first destroyer to anchor in Japanese coastal waters at the end of World War II — one that, wrote Admiral William F. Halsey, "admirably performed every mission assigned to her."