Click HERE to tour the U.S.S. Leftwich DD-984 while in-port Bahrain, exactly one week before Operation Desert Storm began.
Spruance Class Destroyer USS Leftwich DD-984 sunk off the coast of Hawaii on 1 August 2003 at 22°48′47″N 160°34′00″W in the Pacific Ocean.
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Easyrider 52 (HSL-37) was deployed on the USS Leftwitch (DD-984) with the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) battlegroup and went down while transiting the strait of Hormuz entering the Persian Gulf.
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LTCDR Lyle M. Hansemann
LT Daryl W. Nelson
AW3 Kelly E. Aldritt
You are missed and will not be forgotten!