Photo #: NH 103377
USS Basilone (DD-824)
Sergeant Lena Mae Basilone, USMC(WR), ship's sponsor, prepares
to christen the destroyer, at the Consolidated Steel Company
Shipyard, Orange, Texas, on 21 December 1945. She was the widow
of Gunnery Sergeant John J. Basilone, USMC, in whose honor the
ship was named.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands"
collection at the Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 69532-KN (Color)
USS Basilone (DD-824)
Jacket patch of an insignia used after Basilone was redesignated
from DD to DDE in 1962.
The central part of the emblem, and the ribbon at top containing
the ship's name, were adopted in 1961, while Basilone
was still a DDE. Its design features crossed cutlasses and a
trident, traditional naval symbols, superimposed by a shield
with waves of blue on white and a naval crown, both ancient symbols
of the sea and its men. The Latin motto "Triumphus Supra
Invisum" is translated "Victory Over the Unseen",
reflecting Basilone's primary mission of anti-submarine
warfare.
The background shield, featuring the National colors (blue field
with red and white stripes), was added sometime between 1962
and 1970.
Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1970.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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