USS Mitscher (DDG-35)

USS Mitscher (DDG-35) was a Mitscher-class destroyer leader (DL-2), later reclassified as a guided missile destroyer, serving in the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1953, she was named in honor of Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, a prominent naval aviator and World War II commander. Throughout her career, USS Mitscher participated in numerous Atlantic and Mediterranean deployments, NATO exercises, and served as flagship for various fleet commands. After two decades of service, she was decommissioned in 1978 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in 1980.