USS McCord (DD-534) was a World War II-era in the service of the United States Navy. Namesake Frank C. McCord was born on 2 August 1890 in Vincennes, Indiana. He was appointed Midshipman on July 5, 1907. From 1925 on, his career focused on naval aviation. On June 30, 1932, he was appointed as commanding officer of the rigid airship . Commander McCord was on board when Akron encountered severe weather and crashed near Barnegat Light, New Jersey on 4 April 1933. McCord, and 71 others, including Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, were killed. Construction and commissioning McCord was laid down on 17 March 1942 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San Francisco, California and launched on 10 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Frank C. McCord, widow of Commander McCord. The ship was commissioned on 19 August 1943. Service history World War II McCord, departing San Diego on 27 November 1943, joined the Pacific Fleet in time for operations in the Marshall Islands and Marianas, and remained in continuous action through the Palau, Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa campaigns. She arrived off Kwajalein as a unit of Task Force 51 (TF 51), 30 January 1944. During Operation "Flintlock", she screened transports and provided rapid close support fire. On 15 February the task force sortied from Kwajalein to Eniwetok Atoll for operation "Catchpole". McCord at first screened the minesweepers as they cleared the passages into the lagoon and then screened the bombardment group as Engebi Island, containing the atoll's only airfield, was secured, 17–18 February. On 21 February, she steamed back to the southern end of the lagoon for the bombardment of Eniwetok and Parry Island. By mid-March McCord had rendezvoused with TF 39 in the Bismarck Archipelago and for two weeks she cruised in the Ysabel Channel in support of landings at Emirau Island, 21 March. She next escorted replacement troops from Purvis Bay, Florida Island, to Emirau. Returning to Purvis Bay at the end of April, she departed 1 May to escort tankers to refueling positions in the Solomons area. On 11 June, after 2 weeks of antisubmarine patrols in the area around Bougainville and New Georgia, she arrived off New Ireland to bombard an enemy tank repair installation, resuming escort duties upon its destruction. Interrupting her escort service between the Admiralties and the Solomons on 23 July, she joined TF 52 at Saipan and took part in the shelling