2025 Spring WorkParty: Friday, 4 April through Sunday, 13 April 2025
2025 Reunion in Mt Pleasant, SC: Monday 14 April – Thursday 17 April 2025
80TH Anniversary Kamikaze Attack in WWII (Memorial Service aboard USS Laffey): 16 April 2025
2025 Fall WorkParty – Dates to be announced
Key Anniversaries
Laffey’s keel was laid down on 28 June 1943 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine
Launched on 21 November 1943; sponsored by Ms. Beatrice F. Laffey, daughter of Seaman Bartlett Laffey
Commissioned on 8 February 1944, with Commander Frederick Becton in command.
6 June 1944 D Day Battle of Normandy France
16 April 1945 Kamikaze Attack in WWII.
Decommissioned 9 March 1975