The U.S.S TWINING (DD540) a Fletcher Class destroyer was commissioned at Bethlehem Steel Company, San Francisco on 1 December 1943. After the usual shakedown TWINING reported for duty in the Pacific Fleet in February 1944. For two months ships of Destroyer Squadron 53, including TWINING, were utilized at Pearl Harbor for training and operations.

The U.S.S TWINING left Pearl Harbor in May of 1944 for the Pacific Theater of Operations to participate in World War II.

My grandfather, William Eugene Connor, served the aboard the USS Twining from May 1944 when she left Pearl until the surrender of Japan in September 1945.  My study of the ship has been bound by these dates.  I would encourage anyone who served on the Twining during this period to send me an email sharing their story.