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USS Tolman
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USS Tolman (DD-740/DM-28/MMD-28) was a destroyer minelayer in the United States Navy.
Charles E. Tolman was born on 25 June 1903 in Concord, Massachusetts. He entered the United States Naval Academy in the summer of 1921 and graduated on 4 June 1925. After serving on the battleship , he was transferred to in 1926. Tolman then completed training courses at the Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, and at the Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut. He served on submarines in 1928 and from 1929 to 1932 when he returned to the Naval Academy for two years. He then served on the submarine in 1934 and commanded from April 1935 to May 1937. He was attached to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations for 17 months before assuming command of on 7 October 1939. In January 1941, Tolman joined the staff of Commander, Submarines, Atlantic Fleet.
Commander Tolman became the commanding officer of upon its commissioning on 21 September 1942. The destroyer steamed to the South Pacific in November 1942 and supported operations in the Solomon Islands. On the afternoon of 1 February 1943, while escorting landing craft, De Haven was attacked by six Japanese dive bombers. Fighting off the attackers, the destroyer downed three enemy planes before a bomb struck its navigating bridge, stopped her and killed Tolman. Two more hits and a near miss doomed De Haven, which sank within two minutes. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
Tolman was laid down as DD-740 on 10 April 1944 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works; reclassified a destroyer minelayer and redesignated DM-28 on 19 July; launched on 13 August 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Helen Tolman; and commissioned on 27 October 1944.
The minelayer held her shakedown training off Bermuda during November and December and returned, via Norfolk, Virginia, to Boston, Massachusetts. On 13 January 1945, Tolman departed Boston to escort the cruiser to the west coast. She called at San Diego on 27 January and then escorted the cruiser to Hawaii.
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