Namesake Ship: USS Borie (DD-704)
A second USS Borie, Allen M. Sumner-class Borie was launched 4 July 1944, commissioned 21 September, and served with distinction at Iwo Jima and Okinawa before being hit by a kamikaze suicide aircraft off Japan, 9 August 1945, one of the last destroyers damaged in World War II.
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