USS Bache (DD:DDE-470)

USS Bache (DD/DDE-470) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, commissioned in November 1942. She served with distinction in the Pacific Theater during World War II, participating in major operations such as the Solomon Islands campaign, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the Okinawa campaign, where she survived a devastating kamikaze attack. After the war, Bache was converted to an escort destroyer (DDE) and served during the Cold War, including deployments in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Her service ended after she was wrecked by grounding during a storm off Rhodes, Greece, in 1968, and she was subsequently decommissioned and scrapped.